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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