"Button" Ornament, 4th century BC

  • Etruscan

Bronze

  • 3/4 × 3/4 × 1/2 inches (1.9 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm)

Gift of The Etruscan Foundation, Inc.

61.154

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Museo Archeologico (Florence, Italy)

1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Peck, W., "Etruscan Pottery and Bronzes," Bulletin of the DIA, vol 41, no 3, 1962, pp 52-53 n.1. Caccioli, D. A., The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14, Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009, cat. no. 55, p. 99, ill. pl. 62.

possibly Etruscan, "Button" Ornament, 4th century BC, Bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of The Etruscan Foundation, Inc., 61.154.