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Fibula (garment fastener or brooch)

Place of OriginItaly, Etruria
Date7th century BCE
DimensionsL (pin): 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); L (glass from end to end): 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); L (bone from end to end): 7/32 in. (.7 cm)
MediumRod-formed runner; applied marvered threads
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Robert F. Reichert
Object number
1986.82
Not on View
DescriptionBronze, glass, and bone fibula with bronze triple-coil spring, pointed pin, concave catch-plate, and arching bow. Bow decorated with a rod-formed, leech-shaped glass runner in a dark brown ground (appearing black), with six longitudinal panels of marvered opaque yellow festoons. A longitudinal threadhole at the center, its inner surface coated with a fine gray separating agent. A carved conical section of bone is attached at the end of the runner above the catch-plate.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.c. to A.d. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 36, p. 87, repr. (col.) p. 70.
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