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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.142
Title
Hairpin
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
pin
Date
2nd-6th century CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Antioch (Syria)
Find Spot: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303647

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast and hammered
Dimensions
12.7 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm (5 x 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is dark brown with metal showing through and small amounts of green in the crevices. The surface is slightly pitted. The tapered shape was probably made by hammering a cast rod. The rough surface makes it difficult to determine if the decorative depressions and the finial end were cold worked or cast. The tip is broken, and other deformations are also present.


Carol Snow and Henry Lie (submitted 2002, updated 2010)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Daphne, sector DH-26-M/N (no. c112-U706) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.142
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
The smooth and fairly straight shaft tapers down to a sharp point, the tip of which has broken off. The other end is topped by a knobbed, piriform finial. Below the finial on the shaft are three beads, each bordered by a double collar.

The decorative nature of this pin might indicate that it had a decorative use.

David Smart

Exhibition History

  • Antioch-on-the-Orontes: Excavating an Early Byzantine City, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, 04/07/2010 - 10/10/2010

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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