Quatrefoil Fibula
The quadruple spiral has a long history in the jewelry of Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and the Near East from around 3000 BCE. This variant was developed in Sicily and is found in numerous 8th-century burials in South Italy.
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Artifact
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32088
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contentType
object
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stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Private collection, Germany, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Fortuna Fine Arts Limited, New York, 1997; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase.
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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pageCount
3
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import
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