Fibula (Pin)
MS856D
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS856D |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
Locus | Tomb 43 |
Date Made | 699-600 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Bronze. Pin and part of clasp missing. Lower surface broken. Hollow cast. Transverse zones adjacent to spring and clasp alternately plain and filled with herring-bone. Between these zones are zones along the axis of the fibula, also alternately plain and filled with herring-bone, and flanked by triangles of herring-bone, their apices pointing downward. |
Length | 18.29 cm |
Width | 12.7 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
Other Number | 826 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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