Fibula (Pin)
MS1137B
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS1137B |
Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
Locus | Tomb 18B |
Date Made | 8th c. BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Bronze | Copper Alloy |
Description | Fibula (of leech type). Bronze. Decorated raised bands. End of pin missing. Hollow cast with plugged oblong vent hole on lower surface. Bow ornamented with transverse bands alternately plain and filled with herring-bones pattern. |
Length | 7.62 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Fausto Benedetti, 1896 |
Other Number | 842 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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