Fibula (Pin)

MS1520

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Bizentium

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS1520
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Bizentium
Locus Trench Tomb
Date Made 799-600 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Description

Fibula with disk foot bracelets attached. This fibula is of an early type. The disk is beaten out from the end of the cast piece. The two bracelets were originally strung on the fibula's long pin.

Length 10.8 cm
Width 5.7 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 774 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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