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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