MAKE A MEME View Large Image Frankish - Digitated Fibula - Walters 542443 - Back.jpg Bow fibulas are also called digitated fibulae due to the radiating knobs that resemble fingers or digits emerging from the headplate The knobs of early 4th-century fibulae were ...
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Keywords: Frankish - Digitated Fibula - Walters 542443 - Back.jpg Bow fibulas are also called digitated fibulae due to the radiating knobs that resemble fingers or digits emerging from the headplate The knobs of early 4th-century fibulae were functional and held the springs of the pin At a later date as on this 6th-century example the knobs became purely decorative This fibula has seven knobs alternately inlaid with garnets or glass paste and concentric circles filled with niello a mixture of copper sulphur silver and lead While seven-knobbed fibulae are much less common than the five-knobbed types they are likewise found in northeastern France and the Rhineland They were worn in pairs at the shoulder or as belt ornaments by women with noble status in Frankish society century 6 Early Medieval gilt bronze with garnets or glass paste and niello cm 11 3 6 7 1 6 accession number 54 2443 1374 Carlebach Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1959 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1959 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Rhineland Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Merovingian fibulae Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Julius Carlebach Fibulae with seven-finger grip 6th-century works
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