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Orientalising-Archaic (Etruscan) |
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Europa, Italien |
| Description <itemDescription> |
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The sphinx is recumbent and wingless, with hair tresses descending to the back. It is made of right and left halves of embossed gold sheet, with a tail made of a plain wire curved along the back and coiled into a spiral, partly wrought into the form of a spool-wire. The figurine was attached, perhaps, to the sheath of a big fibula, by means of four small gold strips which were inserted into apposi...
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The sphinx is recumbent and wingless, with hair tresses descending to the back. It is made of right and left halves of embossed gold sheet, with a tail made of a plain wire curved along the back and coiled into a spiral, partly wrought into the form of a spool-wire. The figurine was attached, perhaps, to the sheath of a big fibula, by means of four small gold strips which were inserted into apposite holes and bent around below them.
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Earlier inv.nr. CK 324. Miniature figures of sphinxes, lions, chimeras and birds were regulary placed in rows on Etruscan fibulae of the seventh century BC.
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| Period, Swedish <itemDescription> |
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| Geographic name, alternative <itemDescription> |
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| Händelse <context> |
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Insamlad av Kempe, Carl.
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Brukad Orientalising-Archaic (Etruscan).
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Funnen i Italien, Europa.
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| Material, engelska<itemMaterial> |
- Metal
- Gold
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| Nyckelord <itemKeyWord> |
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Orientalising-Archaic (Etruscan)
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Height / Höjd: 1,7 cm.
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Length / Längd: 1,9 cm.
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Width / Bredd: 0,6 cm.
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| Object<itemName> |
- ornament
- miniature
- figure
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| Källa <presOrganization> |
Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet |
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