Onion button primer
An onion button fibula is a garment needle from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . The shape arose from the predecessor type of the hinge arm fibula in the 2nd half of the 3rd century.
Onion button fibulas were part of both the late Roman soldier's costume and the clothing of late antique officials. The fibula held the cloak together and was usually carried on the right shoulder. Since the fibula shape was worn almost exclusively by these groups of people, it was also a badge of rank.
Onion button fibulas were made from different materials. Most of the specimens are made of brass or bronze , some of which are gold-plated or decorated with niello or enamel . Few examples are made of silver or gold , the different materials are probably due to differences in the rank of the wearer. A golden onion button fibula comes from the grave of the Frankish king Childerich I.
literature
- Heinrich Beck (Ed.): Fibel and Fibeltracht . Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity . Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016858-8 .
- Ph. Pröttel: On the chronology of the onion button primer. In: Yearbook of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz 35, 1988, pp. 347–372.
- Heiko Steuer : onion button primer. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 34, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018389-4 , pp. 605-623.
- Heinrich Zabehlicky, onion button fibula as a mark of Roman soldiers on late Roman monuments. In: WS Hanson / LJF Keppie (eds.), Roman frontier studies 1979. Papers presented to the 12th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. BAR International Series 71, 3 (Oxford 1980) 1099-1111.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zabehlicky 1980, 1099-1111. - Tax 2007, 616.