
Cincin leher
Sign in to saveAlso known as torque, torq, grivna, grivna (jewellery)
thumb|Bronze 4th-century BC buffer-type torc from France thumb|The Dying Gaul, a Roman statue with a torc in the [[Capitoline Museums in Rome]] A torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together. The great majority are open at the front, although some have hook and ring closures and a few have mortice and tenon locking catches to close them. Many seem designed for near-permanent wear and would have been difficult to remove.
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- time period
- Bronze Age
- indigenous to
- Slavs
- Commons category
- Torcs
- topic's main category
- Category:Torcs
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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