TWO ETRUSCAN GOLD 'LEECH'-SHAPED BOW FIBULAE

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TWO ETRUSCAN GOLD 'LEECH'-SHAPED BOW FIBULAE
6TH CENTURY B.C.
the first decorated with five thin gold leaf rosettes on the bow (three along the top and one on each side), its ends decorated with circles of plain wire, the oblong sheath divided into compartements formed by wire plaits with a figure of a recumbent two-faced sphinx at the end, the spring of the pin is of two spiral twists; another similar, with three larger rosettes on the bow, the sheath with three rosettes
1.3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) long and 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long respectively (2)

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PUBLISHED:
H. A. Cahn, Art of Ancient Italy, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, exh. cat., New York, 1970, p.19 nos. 24 d and e.

Cf.F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery Greek, Etruscan and Roman in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum, 1969, p.131-132, nos. 1383 and 1384, pl. XIX

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