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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Fibulas & Clothing| > AI36064
Roman, D-Shaped Iron Fibula, Late 2nd - 3rd Century A.D.
|Fibulas| |&| |Clothing|, |Roman,| |D-Shaped| |Iron| |Fibula,| |Late| |2nd| |-| |3rd| |Century| |A.D.|, From the collection of Alex G. Malloy, former dealer in antiquities for 40 years.

This brooch has no parallel in the four volumes by Hattatt. That is not too surprising since iron brooches are rare and are usually found as a rusty misshapen, just recognizable mass.

Manufacture of iron brooches was much more difficult than copper or bronze. Unlike copper and bronze, which could be cast, Iron could only be forged. Iron was rarely used for brooches after the middle of the first century B.C.

The D-shaped brooch was popular in Phrygia in the 7th Century B.C. and was little used in other times and places. This brooch, however, is clearly quite different from those early Phrygian brooches, sharing only the shape.

The loop was probably used to connect this brooch to another with a chain. This arrangement was probably both fashionable and helped ensure that if a brooch came loose it wouldn't be lost.

AI36064. Iron arched bow fibula; Hattatt -; loop at top, long clasp, loop-hinge pin, 32mm long; an extraordinary rarity in this condition; complete and intact, Superb, SOLD










REFERENCES|

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Mackreth, D. Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain. (Oxford, 2011).
Milavec, T. "Crossbow fibulae of the 5th and 6th centuries in the southeastern Alps" in Arheoloski Vestnik 60, 2009.
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See Fibula in NumisWiki for additional references.

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