Romano-British Hippocamp Brooch
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Description
Romano-British Hippocamp Brooch. c 2-3rd century AD. The bronze original depicts a 'Hippocamp', a mythical creature with head and forelegs of a horse, the tail of a fish and the wings of a bird, which pulled the chariot of Poseidon across the Heavens. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. Length 41mm
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