Fibula (Garment Pin)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Geometric Period (about 800 BCE)

Greek; probably from Southern Italy

Worn as a clasp for clothing, this type of double-spiral fibula was popular in Greece before the style was adopted in the southern Italian peninsula.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Fibula (Garment Pin)
Place: Southern Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 800 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 4.3 × 10 × 1.2 cm (1 3/4 × 25 7/16 × 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Staff of the Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1986.973
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Louise Berge, “Recent Acquisitions in the Classical Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago” in Daidalikow: studies in memory of Raymond V. Schoder (S.J. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1988), pp. 51 (ill.), 52.

Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vases: Form and Function, Gallery 101A, March 3-October 8, 1986.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-May 9, 2017.

Michael Ward Inc., New York; sold to the Professional Museum Association of the Art Insitute and given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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