Eye fibula

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Undecorated eye fibula - the spiral spring and needle are missing, the fastenings of the spiral are visible under the "eyes"

The eye fibula is a garment clasp used to hold clothes together in the early Roman Empire . The name of this primer results from two holes at the head end, which can act like eyes.

description

The fibula has an evenly wide, ribbon-shaped bracket approximately in an S-shape. At the point where the concave part of the bracket merges into the convex one, there is often a knot-like thickening. At the foot end of the bracket there is very often an angular incision, and lines along the edge or the central axis of the bracket sometimes appear as further decoration. At the head end, the bracket widens to a plate into which the two "eyes" are drilled. Sometimes these are only indicated as scratches. A spiral spring with six or eight turns is attached below these eyes as a closing mechanism, which held the needle in place. The needle holder at the foot of the fibula is usually trapezoidal and undecorated.

During the initial phase of the Roman Empire, ie the first century after Christ, the eye fibula was a typical part of the costume in large parts of Central and Northern Europe.

literature

  • Oscar Almgren : Studies on Northern European fibula forms of the first centuries AD, taking into account the provincial Roman and southern Russian forms. 2nd edition, supplemented by an afterword. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1923.
  • Ronald Heynowski: Primers. recognize · determine · describe (= Archeology Guide. 1). 2nd, updated and improved edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07119-3 , p. 79.
  • Magdalena Maczynska: Remarks on some types of fibulae in the Barbaricum. In: Herwig Friesinger , Alois Stuppner (Ed.): Center and periphery. Social phenomena in early history. Materials of the 13th International Symposium “Basic Problems of Early Historical Development in the Central Danube Region”, Zwettl, 4. – 8. December 2000 (= communications from the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 57). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3317-0 , pp. 211-240.