1968.92: Toggle
Tools and EquipmentIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1968.92
- Title
- Toggle
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- tool/equipment
- Date
- 9th-8th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World
- Period
- Geometric period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304244
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Copper-tin-antimony alloy
- Technique
- Cast, lost-wax process
- Dimensions
- 4 x 1.9 x 1 cm (1 9/16 x 3/4 x 3/8 in.)
- Technical Details
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Chemical Composition: XRF data from Tracer
Alloy: Mixed Copper Alloy
Alloying Elements: copper, tin, antimony
Other Elements: lead, iron, nickel, silver, arsenic
K. Eremin, January 2014Chemical Composition: ICP-MS/AAA data from sample, Copper-Tin-Antimony Alloy:
Cu, 90.43; Sn, 6.53; Pb, 0.09; Zn, 0.002; Fe, 0.02; Ni, 0.07; Ag, 0.04; Sb, 2.43; As, 0.37; Bi, less than 0.025; Co, 0.019; Au, less than 0.01; Cd, less than 0.001
J. RiedererChemical Composition:
Lead Isotope Analysis (Pb, 0.09%):
Pb206/Pb204, 18.85730; Pb207/Pb204, 15.70711; Pb208/Pb204, 39.15501; Pb, 207/Pb206, 0.83295; Pb 208/Pb206, 2.07638; Pb208/Pb207, 2.49282
P. DegryseTechnical Observations: The patina is black and dark green and features brown burial accretions. The surface is well preserved. The toggle is a solid cast, probably from a model made directly in the wax. The incised lines and indentations on the bottom of the loop were made by cold working.
Henry Lie (submitted 2012)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Richard R. Wagner, gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1968.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Richard R. Wagner
- Accession Year
- 1968
- Object Number
- 1968.92
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The body of the toggle is widest at the center (1 cm in diameter), tapering to dull points at each end (3 mm in diameter). The toggle has a single vertical loop, which is at right angles with the central, raised torus at the center of the toggle’s body.
Subjects and Contexts
- Ancient Bronzes
Verification Level
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