Violin bow brooch
The violin bow brooch is a bronze age clasp to hold clothes together. This brooch was named because of its shape, which is reminiscent of the bow of a string instrument. A special form of the violin bow fibula is the Peschiera fibula (named after Peschiera del Garda , where it was first described).
description
Both types of fibula have a very simple, distinctive construction, they were bent from a single piece of bronze wire and embody the most basic design of a fibula. The most important component is a single-part spiral spring. In the violin bow brooch, the bow rises slightly from this, it can be decorated with simple incised decoration. Towards the foot end, the bracket breaks down at right angles, its end is bent up and thus forms the needle holder. In the Peschiera fibula, the bracket does not rise, but runs parallel to the needle. The distance between the bracket and the needle usually results directly from the diameter of the spiral spring. Peschiera fibulae are usually undecorated.
Both fibulae are typical costume components of the late Bronze Age or the Hallstatt A phase , i.e. H. of the 13th and 12th centuries BC Its distribution area extends over Greece, the Balkans, Italy, Switzerland and Austria, in the case of the violin bow brooch even into southern Germany.
literature
- Oscar Almgren : Studies on Northern European fibula forms of the first centuries AD . Leipzig 1923.
- Patrizia von Eles Masi: Le fibule dell'Italia settentrionale (= prehistoric bronze finds, section XIV, vol. 5). Munich, Beck 1986, ISBN 9783406097089
- Ronald Heynowski: Primers. recognize · determine · describe. (= Determination Book Archeology 1 ), 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07119-3 , p. 51 f.
- Rosemarie Müller, Heiko Steuer : fibula and fibula costume. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , pp. 541-545.