Heading: Ancient Greek Bronze Fibula - Geometric Boat-Shaped 8th-7thCs BC

Material: Copper alloy

Period: Ancient Greece

Date: 8th-7th centuries BC

Origin: Ancient Greece with earlier Etruscan influence

Condition: VF+, a complete example

Description: A decorated, bronze brooch with a hollow-formed ornamental bulb to the bow, sturdy curved pin and the flange finial forms the catch.

Size and Weight: 103mm, 31g 

Features and Provenance: Ex TimeLine Auction, artefact sale, previously the property of a London academic and part of the Museum Gallery, London's display (1998-2003).

Brooches as clothes fasteners have been made since the bronze age. As skills and metallurgy advanced, so did the size and detail of the brooches or fibulae. They were still used by the Romans, as buttons had yet to be invented. Roman brooches are in hundreds of differing shapes, including this curious design. A similar design was developed by the Etruscans in the 9th century BC and it may well have been borrowed from there.

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