Silver fibula (brooch)

Description

A Roman silver fibula (brooch). It has wing-shaped extensions on the bow with bulbous terminals. There is a wide spring with a bulbous terminal at the end of the bow.

Object data

Accession number

MG 139/117

Creator

Germany or France

Date made

1st millennium BC,1st Millennium B.C.

Materials

Metal; silver

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Place of collection

Culture

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Silver fibula (brooch) | Metal,silver | 1st millennium BC,1st Millennium B.C. | The Hunt Collection | PD

Provenance

File of material relating to a fibula or brooch. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); extract from exhibition catalogue in German (c. 1972) issued by the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, which describes present object. Transcription of entry from exhibition catalogue and image of object also present; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (10 July 1996) containing comments made about object by Lindsay Allason-Jones, Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She dates the fibula to the second or first century B.C. and attributes it to Germany or France.

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