Garment pin

Object Details

• Description

  Pin with club-like head; intact. Upper shank divided into panels by groups of 3 horizontal encircling lines set at regular intervals; below panels, incised chevrons.

• Label

  Bronze pins with decorated heads were popular personal ornaments in the ancient Near East, used by both men and women to fasten their garments. Many pins of this type, often decorated with animal figures, have been recovered from cemeteries in western Iran dating from the second and early first millennia B.C.E.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Metalwork and Ceramics from Ancient Iran (November 19, 1992 to January 22, 2004)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of The Duncan M. Whittome Revocable Trust in memory of Ambassador and Mrs. James S. Moose, Jr.

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Date

  BCE 0s, BCE 1000s

• Topic

  Bronze, Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Iron Age II (ca. 1250 - 800 BCE), Incising, Iron Age I (ca. 1450 - 1250 BCE), Metal-work

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry