Leech" shaped bronze female fibula with incised geometric design decoration; hinge type. Piercings on surface seem to indicate that the object was hollow, and therefore of cast bronze.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Perugia, Umbria, Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Environs of Perugia
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bow fibulas
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1978-1979 #9: Saint Mary’s College of California (August 28, 1978–October 26, 1978) and S1983-1984 #8: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (August 29, 1983–August 29, 1983)