7th-2nd century BCE
This thin rectangular-sectioned bar is bent into a circle, with the ends overlapping. It may have been a bracelet or is perhaps simply a bent scrap.
4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Gold
2nd century BCEGreekSilver gilt, punched and incised
13th centuryPersian
Gilt silver
8th-9th centuryCopper alloy
1st-2nd millennium CEByzantineCopper alloy
9th-8th century BCEItalicSilver
18th-19th centuryRussianBronze
9th-8th century BCEIranianCopper alloy
7th-8th centuryAvarBody: Mixed copper alloy; Pin: Bronze
3rd-4th century CERomanGilt with painted enamel
18th-19th centuryRussianFibula: leaded bronze or leaded copper; Pin: Copper
8th-4th century BCENear EasternGold
7th century BCEEtruscan