1991.282: Dress Fastener
JewelryThis is a semicircular band of yellow metal. There are cone shaped cups that flare out from either end of the band. There is a dent in the band about a quarter of the way around. The cone shapes at the terminuses of the band are also dented around there flared edges, so that they are not perfectly circular.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.282
- Title
- Dress Fastener
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Work Type
- jewelry
- Date
- 8th-7th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Ireland (Ancient)
- Period
- Iron Age
- Culture
- Celtic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/289020
Location
- Location
-
Level 3, Room 3700, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Roman Art
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Technique
- Hammered
- Dimensions
- 6 x 7.7 cm (2 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mrs. James J. Sweeney (by 1955). Ann Sweeney Baxter, Chapel Hill, NC, (by 1991), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ann Sweeney Baxter in honor of John Lincoln Sweeney, Curator of the Farnsworth Poetry Room in the Harvard College Library, 1942-69
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.282
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3700 Roman, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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