Dumbarton Oaks - Finial of Hairpin with Head of a Woman

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Finial of Hairpin with Head of a Woman

Late Roman
4th century
2.2 cm x 1.5 cm (7/8 in. x 9/16 in.)
bone
BZ.1947.1

Not on view

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Bibliography

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 248.

K. Weitzmann, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. III, Ivories and Steatites (Washington, DC, 1972), no. 14, pl. XIII.

I. Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat. (Cambridge, 2003), 258, no. 149, p. 258.

Exhibition History

Cambridge, MA, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, "Byzantine Women and Their World," Oct. 26, 2002 - Apr. 28, 2003.

Acquisition History

Found at Tipasa, Algeria.

Gift of Madame Henri Bonnet, Paris, January 1947.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023