A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 144
catchplate in a vertical plane—that is in the plane of the bowof the fibula. This plate, often with incised patterns (Fig. 144 ;No. 357) was a characteristic of the period of geometric art inGreece. Two very large examples are shown above Case D in theBronze Koom. The plainly curved bows may have… … Fig. 148.—Italian Fibula (No. 361). 1:2. Some from Cyprus are quite distinct, and seem to have noconnection with the others (No. 360 ; fig. 147). In the classicalperiod the fibula was little used in Greece, in consequence of modi-fications in dress which rendered such fastenings unnecessary. In…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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