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© Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
Omeka ID 1865
Tàrraco. Necròpolis Paleocristiana
Medieval

belt buckle

MNAT-P-2606

Object type
buckle tag
Production date
601 / 700
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
Culture
Medieval
Discovery location
Tàrraco. Necròpolis Paleocristiana
Materials
bronze
Township
Tarragona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Tarragona, Tarragonès)
Technique
casting
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
7,8 cm
Description
From the Early-Christian Necropolis, this Visigothic belt buckle presents a lyre-shaped silhouette decorated with nerves on the outside and a stylised snake that surrounds the plaque, on the inside of which a crocodile is depicted. It is the schematisation of the fable of the snake and the crocodile of the Physiologist, common in Byzantine gold-and silverwork.

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