JewelryItalic8th-7th century BCE
Bow of a Navicella Fibula
late 8th-7th century BCE
Dimensions
2.7 x 3.9 x 4.3 cm (1 1/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in.)
Provenance
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).
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