Large Bow Fibula and Pin

8th-7th century BCE (Geometric-Orientalizing)

7.4 cm 5.8 cm 2.6 cm

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Greek fibulae of the 9th to the 7th century BC combined a bold, sculptural quality with a lighter, more decorative style. This bronze fibula (pin) is said to have been excavated from a grave that dates to the 8th or 7th century BC.

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Salonika, Greece; Mr. Richard Hubbard Howland, Washington, D.C., 1935, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, by gift.
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