Head of a Toggle Pin: Calf Protome
7th-6th century BCE
Description
Zoomorphic head of a bronze toggle pin with missing pinshaft. Pin head is decorated with the head and stylized body of a calf, with snub snout, bulbous eyes, and flatly rendered looped ears. The front and back haunches of the calf appear as thick ridges, with narrow extensions from each to the underside of the animal meant to represent legs. The haunches are separated by ring moldings, which continue, then, behind the calf's hind quarters. A loop projects from the molding just before the point where the pin head has been broken from its now missing shaft.
Dimensions
12.13 g 1.17 x 5.1 cm (7/16 x 2 in.)
Provenance
Gift of Dr. Jerome Eisenberg, 2000.
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