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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.12.39
Title
Pin
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
pin
Date
n.d.
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Sardis (Lydia)
Find Spot: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey), Western Türkiye (Turkey)
Culture
Unidentified culture
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304029

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
10.3 x 0.2 cm (4 1/16 x 1/16 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is greenish brown with some red cuprite and encrustations. The surface is poorly preserved. The pin was made by casting with some further working to form the shaft.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964.

Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.12.39
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 shaft of this pin tapers to a sharp point. The shaft is bent out of line near the midpoint. The finial is encrusted but appears to consist of two pairs of collars and a long, oblong, olivoid stippled tip, possibly representing a pinecone (1).

NOTES:

1. Compare a bone pin with a similar finial decorated by a “pineapple” in J. W. Crowfoot, G. M. Crowfoot, and K. M. Kenyon, The Objects from Samaria (London, 1957) 430, no. 17, fig. 100.


David Smart

Publication History

  • Jane Waldbaum, Metalwork from Sardis: The Finds through 1974, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1983), p. 153, no. 1009, pl. 58.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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