Harvard Art Museums > 1939.128: Pin with Dove Jewelry Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pin with Dove , 1939.128,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/310775. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1939.128 Title Pin with Dove Classification Jewelry Work Type pin Date 5th-6th century Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Antioch (Syria) Find Spot: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey) Period Byzantine period Culture Byzantine Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/310775 Physical Descriptions Medium Copper alloy Technique Cast and hammered Dimensions 15.3 x 1.7 x 0.3 cm (6 x 11/16 x 1/8 in.) Technical Details Technical Observations: The patina is a compact, well-preserved dark green. The surface is well preserved under areas of burial accretions. The object is intact. The pin was cast in its rough form and then hammered with annealing to further shape it. The surface shows tool marks from finishing. Saw and file marks show the bird was cut from a flattened section of the rod and finished abrasively. Decorative indentations were also made using a file-type tool. Carol Snow and Henry Lie (submitted 2002, updated 2010) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Excavated from Antioch, sector 17-O (no. a-384-U542) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity Accession Year 1939 Object Number 1939.128 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums The tapering shaft of this pin is surmounted at one end by a roughly circular disc and a crudely rendered bird, possibly a dove, in profile. On the opposite end, the shaft narrows slightly to a blunt tip. A flat, shallowly incised bead is visible on either side of the circular disc. Due to its decorative elements, the pin might have been used as a piece of decoration. Pins with bird finials are known from contexts ranging from Iron Age Iran to Byzantine Greece (1). NOTES: 1. See P. Jacobsthal, Greek Pins and Their Connexions with Europe and Asia (Oxford, 1959) 261-65. For other bird-topped pins from the region of Roman Syria, see G. Ploug et al., Les petits objets médiévaux sauf les verreries et poteries, Hama: Fouilles et recherches, 1931-1938, 4.3 (Copenhagen, 1969) 72, fig. 28.3-7, esp. no. 5. David Smart Exhibition History Antioch-on-the-Orontes: Excavating an Early Byzantine City, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, 04/07/2010 - 10/10/2010 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/30/2018 - 05/08/2019 Subjects and Contexts Ancient Bronzes Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
