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Fibula: Bird Form
Fibula: Bird Form

Fibula: Bird Form

Date750-670 B.C.
Maker Etruscan
Object number51.62
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1933
Credit LineThomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 13/16 x 2 5/16 x 15/16 in. (4.6 x 5.9 x 2.4 cm)
MediumBronze with bronze and gladd beads Technique: fabricated
Mirror: Maenad and Doe
Mirror: Maenad and Doe
Etruscan
ca. 470 B.C.
Object number: 48.23
Image Not Available for Athlete
Athlete
Etruscan
5th century B.C.
Object number: 46.96
Fire Shovel
Fire Shovel
Roman
ca. 3rd century
Object number: 57.177
Photo: James Prinz
Soundsuit
Nick Cave
2006
Object number: 2007.70
Bird earring
Bird earring
Greek
4th-3rd century B.C.
Object number: 55.203
Image Not Available for Bowl with birds on rim: Phiale
Bowl with birds on rim: Phiale
Etruscan
8th century B.C.
Object number: 62.157
Fibula, Cross Bow Type
Fibula, Cross Bow Type
Roman
3rd-4th century
Object number: 64.156
Spectacle Type Fibula
Spectacle Type Fibula
ca. 8th century B.C.
Object number: 61.143
Image Not Available for Friends of Children (Unai no tomo)
Friends of Children (Unai no tomo)
Japanese
1911-1913
Object number: 2001.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Portrait of Bartolomeo Sirigatti
Francesco Traballesi
signed and dated 1567
Object number: 2009.53.1
Image Not Available for Oni Hiding Under Hat
Oni Hiding Under Hat
18th-19th century
Object number: 33.378
Figure of Mercury
Figure of Mercury
Roman
ca. 1st century
Object number: 68.201