# Fibula (Garment Pin)

- By: Ancient Greek
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the Staff of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64921)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/51890c43-5ee4-c5e9-6a04-7bc2b6567c1e/full/843,/0/default.jpg
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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