Bow Fibula

Description Bow fibula were used in pairs to fasten clothing on each shoulder of the wearer, usually a woman. This type of elegant silver fibula was popular with the Visigoths with its clean and simple lines. The three knobs (one missing) projecting off the head-plate would have held the springs of the pin, while the metal strips to which they are attached would have reinforced the thin silver.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
3/24/1956	Treatment	cleaned
11/15/1974	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• Heirs of the Empire in North Africa-The Kingdom of the Vandals. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe. 2009-2010.

Provenance Carlebach Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, March 10, 1959, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1959