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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3188
Empúries

navicella-type fibula

MAC GIR-013366

Object type
navicella-type fibula
Production date
-700 / -601
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
bronze
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
moulding
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
92 x 46,5 x 27,5 mm
Description
This fibula found in Empúries (l'Escala, Alt Empordà) comes from one of its necropolises and is dated to the 7th century BC. It lacks a piece of the arch, but the needle, the double spring and the foot is retained. It has incised decoration and the foot topped with a flattened circular button or appendix. The fibula is of Etruscan origin and, due to its date, prior to the founding of the Greek colony of “Emporion”. It has been thought that it could come from contacts with the Etruscans before the Greeks arrived.

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