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Hairpin with Decorated Top
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This carved, bone hairpin is in two pieces--a bulbous head and tapered shaft. Incised geometric designs cover the surface. On the shaft, are a series of three rings and a cross hatch of oblique lines. On the head, are a pattern of crosshatch and a series of three bands, forming a spiral pattern.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum 1978.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University
Title: Hairpin with Decorated Top
Description:
This carved, bone hairpin is in two pieces--a bulbous head and tapered shaft.
Incised geometric designs cover the surface.
On the shaft, are a series of three rings and a cross hatch of oblique lines.
On the head, are a pattern of crosshatch and a series of three bands, forming a spiral pattern.
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