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Globular-headed Straight Pin
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This pin has a long, circular-sectioned shank with a slight taper near the tip. The head of the pin is an oblate sphere with an irregular impression on the top.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Purchased by David Gordon Mitten at the bazaar in Izmir Turkey during the summer of 1960.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of David Gordon Mitten in memory of W. C. Burriss Young
Title: Globular-headed Straight Pin
Description:
This pin has a long, circular-sectioned shank with a slight taper near the tip.
The head of the pin is an oblate sphere with an irregular impression on the top.
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