Fibula (Pin)

MS772B

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS772B
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 19M
Date Made 799-700 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass | Bronze
Technique Core-Form
Description

Composite Fibula. Bronze pin. Glass deocration of brown leaves on buff background. Pins, catches, and springs missing: only stubs remain at either end of the bronze bow on which large glass beads are strung. Leech-chaped glass bow of herring-bone pattern, yellow in brown.

Length 4.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 287 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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