CIRCA 9TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ITALIC BRONZE FIBULA
CIRCA 9TH CENTURY B.C.
6 ¾ in. (17.1 cm.) long

Provenance

Harris Moore (1959-2001), Celtic & Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Ireland.
with Frederick Schultz Ancient Art, New York, acquired from the above, 1997 (Plain Geometry: Armament and Adornment in Pre-Classical Europe, no. 12).
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1997.
Art Market, New York; thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example from Torre Galli, Calabria, see fig. 66,b in D. Randall-MacIver, The Iron Age in Italy: A Study of Those Aspects of the Early Civilization Which are Neither Villanovan nor Etruscan. Also compare a fibula in the British Museum, inv. no. 1856,1226.903, no. 306 in A.M.B. Sestiere and E. Macnamara, Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC).

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