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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.2202.18
Title
Pin
Other Titles
Former Title: Needle?
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
pin
Date
n.d.
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
Culture
Unidentified culture
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98297

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast and hammered
Dimensions
8 x 0.4 cm (3 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is green with a few areas of encrustation. The object is intact. The implement was made by hammering a cast rod into shape and folding over one end to form the opening.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harold Wilmerding Bell, Cambridge, MA (by 1911), gift; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1911-1977), transfer; to the Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of H. W. Bell
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.2202.18
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 broad end of this instrument is bent to form a loop that is now filled with dirt. The undecorated, straight shaft tapers to a sharp point (1).

NOTES:

1. Compare P. Jacobsthal, Greek Pins and Their Connexions with Europe and Asia (Oxford, 1959) 123, figs. 350-51 (the latter dated to c. 700 BCE).


David Smart

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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