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Type II - Keys for lift and shift type locks, with figural handle
200

Size: cm 10 x cm 3,2
Description and material:
lift and shift key; handle with a lion figurehead; iron shank and 4 pins cypher
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
213

Size: cm 6,6
Description and material:
bronze rotary key; the handle has a female face, well combed; shank with geometric decorations; traditional cypher; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
356

Size: cm 3,5
Description and material:
rotary key; the handle represents a hand handling the key; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
Note: the key may be a toy; part of the handle appears broken
360

Size: cm 7 x cm 1,8
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the handle is ram head shaped; shaped shank and 5 pins cypher; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
418

Size: diam. anello cm 2,2; gambo cm 2 + 1,5
Description and material:
lift and shift ring key; the shank is terminated by a closed hand, grasping the ring; 3 pins cypher; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
Note: the ring rotates freely
423

Size: cm 5 x cm 1,5
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle is panther head shaped; shaped bronze shank and 6 pins cypher
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
428

Size: cm 6 x cm 1,5
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the handle has a female figure standing, with tunic; the left arm is shaped as a ring; 4 pins cypher; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
429

Size: cm 10 x cm 2,2; chain l. cm 9
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the handle is shaped like a male figure, with tunic, standing, with a torch (?) on the left arm; bronze; iron shank and 8 pins (?) cypher
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
430

Size: cm 7 x cm 1,5
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle and shank are figured like jumping lion, with eyelet; 5 pins cypher
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
510

Size: cm 7,5 x cm 1,8
Description and material:
traditional Roman key, with an bearded human face on the handle; bronze; iron shank and damaged cypher with 5 (?) pins
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
603

Size: cm 8,2
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle is lion head finely shaped; shaped iron shank; cypher unrecognizable, due to heavy calcareous concretion
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
Note: a check carried out with a magnetometer has revealed no iron parts in the calcareous concretion
653

Size: cm 6,5 x cm 3,2
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle is wolf head shaped; iron shank and cypher damaged
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
743

Size: cm 8,5 x cm 2
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle is lion head finely shaped, with a protruding tongue; iron shank and 3 pins cypher
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
Note: quite unusual is the protruding tongue; a carrying hole is now occluded
2001

Size: cm 5 x cm 1,5
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the shank and handle represent an Egyptian god, a jackal, 3 pins cypher; bronze
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.
5291

Size: cm 10 x cm 3
Description and material:
lift and shift key; the bronze handle is shaped as a lion head, eating a ram head; shank and 3 pins cypher; iron
Origin and epoch: Rome, I century A.D.

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