VIKING BORRE STYLE SWORD SCABBARD CHAPE WITH FACE OF ODIN 10th century AD A bifacial bronze scabbard chape of Paulsen's Borre Style type B, D-shaped with triangular upper edge, knop to the base; to each face an openwork design of a human mask with large pellet eyes, triangular body beneath enmeshed in a dense pattern of three-line bands; the apex of each upper edge formed as a beast-head seen from above with C-shaped ears and pellet eyes; a bilinear border to the frame. 23 grams, 60mm (2 3/8"). Condition Fine condition, the top of one side absent. Provenance Ex Hiller collection, acquired in the 1950s; thence by descent. Literature See Paulsen, P. Schwertortbänder der Wikingerzeit, Stuttgart, 1953; Hedenstierna-Jonson, C. A group of Viking Age sword chapes reflecting the political geography of the time in Journal of Nordic Archaeological Sciences, volume 13, 2002.
VIKING BORRE STYLE SWORD SCABBARD CHAPE WITH FACE OF ODIN 10th century AD A bifacial bronze scabbard chape of Paulsen's Borre Style type B, D-shaped with triangular upper edge, knop to the base; to each face an openwork design of a human mask with large pellet eyes, triangular body beneath enmeshed in a dense pattern of three-line bands; the apex of each upper edge formed as a beast-head seen from above with C-shaped ears and pellet eyes; a bilinear border to the frame. 23 grams, 60mm (2 3/8"). Condition Fine condition, the top of one side absent. Provenance Ex Hiller collection, acquired in the 1950s; thence by descent. Literature See Paulsen, P. Schwertortbänder der Wikingerzeit, Stuttgart, 1953; Hedenstierna-Jonson, C. A group of Viking Age sword chapes reflecting the political geography of the time in Journal of Nordic Archaeological Sciences, volume 13, 2002.
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