Artwork Info: Eagle Fibula - Migration Period Art, Early Medieval

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The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, United States of America)

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This object along with Walters 54.422 form a pair of superb eagle-shaped fibula found at Tierra de Barros (Badajoz, southwest Spain) made of sheet gold over bronze inlaid with garnets, amythysts, and colored glass. Pendants once dangled from the loops at the bottom. The eagle, a popular symbol during the Migration period adopted from Roman imperial insignia, was favored by the Goths. Similar eagle-shaped fibulae have been excavated from Visigothic graves in Spain and Ostrogothic graves in northern Italy, but this pair is one of the finest. These fibula would have been worn at the same time to fasten a cloak at either shoulder.

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Title: Eagle Fibula
Artist: visigothic
Year: 500
Original dimensions: 14.0cm x 7.0cm
Copyright status: Under copyright
Where to see it: The Walters Art Museum
Movement: Migration Period Art
Corpus context: funerary adornment , royal heraldry
Keywords: spanish artifact , garnet inlay , eagle fibula

Eagle Fibula

visigothic (? – ?)

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