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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Pair of fibulae

Anonymous

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The clasps, which were used to secure the dress, were accidentally found in 1951 in Alcagnano (Vicenza) inside three burials of Alamann women laid with the traditional dress. The triangular and §-shaped decorations are obtained by pouring a mixture of mineral elements called niello into the silver grooves. The Alamanni, a Germanic people related to the Swabians, settled in Germany at the beginning of the third century and from there they descended into the Lombard plain where they suffered a series of military defeats by the Romans that finally forced them to settle along the Po. king of the Franks Clovis manages to subdue them and divide their territories which will be totally absorbed in the Frankish Kingdom in 536. The presence of Alamanni warriors in Italy is attested by archaeological finds, already in the fourth and especially in the fifth century, in the northern regions, at the outlets of the alpine valleys of Lombardy, Trentino and Veneto. In fact, in these places the refugees of this population sought refuge following the defeats inflicted by the Franks.
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Title: Pair of fibulae

Author: Anonymous

Date: VI sec.

Technique: Solid silver cast in matrix with Kerbschnitt decoration (with deep grooves) and gilded

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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