1964.12.39: Pin
Tools and EquipmentIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1964.12.39
- Title
- Pin
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- pin
- Date
- n.d.
- Places
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Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Sardis (Lydia)
Find Spot: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey), Western Türkiye (Turkey) - Culture
- Unidentified culture
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304029
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Technique
- Cast, lost-wax process
- Dimensions
- 10.3 x 0.2 cm (4 1/16 x 1/16 in.)
- Technical Details
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Technical Observations: The patina is greenish brown with some red cuprite and encrustations. The surface is poorly preserved. The pin was made by casting with some further working to form the shaft.
Carol Snow (submitted 2002)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964.
Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin
- Accession Year
- 1964
- Object Number
- 1964.12.39
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
The shaft of this pin tapers to a sharp point. The shaft is bent out of line near the midpoint. The finial is encrusted but appears to consist of two pairs of collars and a long, oblong, olivoid stippled tip, possibly representing a pinecone (1).
NOTES:
1. Compare a bone pin with a similar finial decorated by a “pineapple” in J. W. Crowfoot, G. M. Crowfoot, and K. M. Kenyon, The Objects from Samaria (London, 1957) 430, no. 17, fig. 100.
David Smart
Publication History
- Jane Waldbaum, Metalwork from Sardis: The Finds through 1974, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1983), p. 153, no. 1009, pl. 58.
Subjects and Contexts
- Ancient Bronzes
Verification Level
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