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| Keywords: Visigothic - Bow Fibula - Walters 571878 - Top Three Quarter.jpg Bow fibula were used in pairs to fasten clothing on each shoulder of the wearer usually a woman This type of elegant silver fibula was popular with the Visigoths with its clean and simple lines The three knobs one missing projecting off the head-plate would have held the springs of the pin while the metal strips to which they are attached would have reinforced the thin silver century 5 6 Early Medieval silver cm 18 7 2 2 4 accession number 57 1878 29148 Carlebach Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum March 10 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 Heirs of the Empire in North Africa-The Kingdom of the Vandals Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Karlsruhe 2009-2010 place of origin Spain Walters Art Museum license Blechfibeln sheet brooches Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Visigothic art Visigothic fibulae Ancient Germanic fibulae in the United States Julius Carlebach 5th-century works | ||||
