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Arc Fibula

Arc Fibula, 4th or 3rd century BCE

  • Italic

Bronze

  • Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 7/8 inches (6 × 9.8 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

26.254

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Details

(A. Riccardi, Florence, Italy)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Caccioli, D. A. "The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14. Leiden/Boston, 2009, cat. no. 25, p. 56, (ill. pl. 25).

Italic, Arc Fibula, 4th or 3rd century BCE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.254.

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