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Fibula (Garment Pin)
Geometric Period (about 800 BCE)
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 4.3 × 10 × 1.2 cm (1 3/4 × 25 7/16 × 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Southern Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of the Staff of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Worn as a clasp for clothing, this type of double-spiral fibula was popular in Greece before the style was adopted in the southern Italian peninsula.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
