Ornament

Bulla

MS865

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS865
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 43
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Description

Bronze. Broken. Fashioned from a single sheet of bronze doubled over and fastened with six rivets with large ball tops. Within the tube remains a piece of iron wire, 0.002m in diameter by which the bulla was suspended.

Outside Diameter 5.9 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 835 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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