Spiral Fibula

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

9.4 cm 23.7 cm 2.7 cm

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Spiral decorative elements reached Greece by the 9th century BC and were enormously popular in both Greece and Italy throughout the Geometric period. Oversized ornaments of bronze, including belts, necklaces with massive beads and pendants, bracelets, and particularly pins, or...

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