Hairpin, bone, head decorated with laureate bust

Made:: 199-500 CE

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Hairpin, bone, head decorated with laureate bust, Hamonic collection, excavated from the Tiber, Roman, 199BC-500AD

Details

Category:: Classical & Medieval Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A121359

Materials:: bone

Measurements:: length 92 mm
max: diameter 7 mm

type:: hairpin

credit:: Hamonic Collection

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