Victorian Gold Aegis Brooch platinum The band appears to have

The band appears to have been replaced at some point in the distant past

Light wear consistent with age including some surface wear to the stone and gold patina

27th January 1882

Era: Ancient

Victorian Gold Aegis Brooch platinum The band appears to have"And across her shoulders she throws the betasselled, terrible aegis, all about which Terror hangs like a garland, and Hatred is there, and Battle Strength, and heart freezing Onslaught and thereon is set the head of the grim gigantic Gorgon, a thing of fear and horror, portent of Zeus of the aegis" Homer, the Iliad, V (Lattimore translation) An excellent 19th century neoclassical brooch modelled as the aegis, Athena's shield loaned from Zeus, with