Jul 6, 2025
Copper Alloy Box Lid With Triskelion, Late 5th Century CE, Vindolanda Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
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Copper Alloy Box Lid With Triskelion, Late 5th Century CE, Vindolanda Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
Who received this hand, and did they answer? ◆ Copper alloy ◆ Lost-wax casting ◆ Six-line dedicatory inscription
Bell form; lost-wax cast in copper alloy. Humanoid bell head; clapperless.
Lower Niger Bronze Industry, 900-1600
“The term ‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry’ was created and first used by William Buller Fagg (1957, 1973, 1990) to identify a miscellaneous group of lost-wax cast objects which were stylistically and/or iconographically distinct from Igbo-Ukwu, Ife and Benin City pieces. The objects are associated with various locations in southern Nigeria, south of the confluence of Benue and Niger Rivers and between the borders with the Republic of Benin and Cameroon. They are thought to have been made prior to European contact, circa pre-1500 A.D.“
[via British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)]
Sword and Scabbard
Celtic, ca. 60 BCE
Although the scabbard has become amalgamated to the iron blade, affecting parts of the surface, its ornamentation and the exquisitely worked hilt make the whole an evocative statement about the technical ability of the Celts, the powerful conquerors of ancient Europe. The sword is of a type associated with the La Tène culture, named after the important Celtic site on Lake Neuchâtel in present-day Switzerland and eastern France. Other related anthropomorphic swords from diverse finds in France, Ireland, and the British Isles demonstrate the expansion of the Celts across Europe.
BW Edit after Byzantine artist of the Late Antiquity (400-450) (Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 1980.416a, b)
Metals: Oxidized Copper
Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.
Hanukkah menorah. German, 18th-early 19th c. Cast and punched copper alloy. Donated to the Danzig Synagogue and inscribed with dedication "to the children of the Danzig Synagogue Congregation" in 1935.
Provenance: Simon Anker donated to the Danzig Synagogue, 1935; Jewish Community of Danzig transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, 1939; accessioned by the Jewish Museum, 1954
Cauldron, copper-alloy, 14th-15th Century
From the London Museum