Quatrefoil Fibula

Description The quadruple spiral has a long history in the jewelry of Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and the Near East from around 3000 BCE. This variant was developed in Sicily and is found in numerous 8th-century burials in South Italy.

Provenance Private collection, Germany, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Fortuna Fine Arts Limited, New York, 1997; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1997