Spiral Fibula

9th-8th century BCE (Iron Age-Orientalizing)

7.1 cm 24.5 cm 2.9 cm

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Fibulae (pins) with wire spirals were common in Greece, South Italy, and the Picene area of eastern Italy. The Italic examples, like this one, commonly have a separate clasp element to which the spirals are attached, while in the Greek examples the pin and catch are formed fro...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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