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Fig. 7. — Bow large, swelling, hollow ("Kahn" or "Navicella" 

 type): the bow carries three large knobs; hinge, two and one-half 

 circles to the left; channel upright, high on the right, long with two 

 spheres on the end; decoration, geometric designs and transversals 

 on the bow, cross-hatchings on the channel, and a chatelaine bunch 

 of four chains attached to the hinge (three of the chains end in spheri- 

 cal or pear-shaped pendants). 



Vide Montelius, Ser. A, 116; v. Sacken, 1 pi. xiv, 4, and p. 62. 



Epoch, Etruscan. 



Length of the fibula, 10.5 cm. 



Museum no. 83537. 



Fig. 8. — Bow "snake"-shaped of "wire" bronze (the same type 

 occurs with bows of "ribbon" bronze); hinge replaced by a disc; 

 channel nearly upright, long, with a sphere on the end; decoration 

 absent. 



Vide Montelius, Ser. A, 274 and 275; Forrer, pi. 57, 19 H. 

 Period, Etruscan. 

 Length, 12 cm. 

 Museum no. 83458. 



Fig. 9. — Bow "snake"-shaped, carrying two crumpled horns (on 

 some specimens horns appear in one, two, or three pairs; they may be 

 symbolical, by a sort of prehistoric synecdoche, of an animal) ; hinge 

 replaced by one disc; channel upright, high on the right side, long, 

 with a sphere and finial; decoration, lateral projections on the bow, 

 and fine incised circular transversals about the end of the channel 

 and the finial. 



Vide Montelius, Ser. A, 261 ; Forrer, pi. 59, 8. 

 Period, Iron age, m or Etruscan. 

 Length, 11 cm. 

 Museum no. 83352. 



Fig. 10. — Bow "snake"-shaped; hinge absent; channel nearly up- 

 right, high on the right side with one small knob; decoration absent. 

 This complete absence of the hinge with a simple form of "arco 

 serpeggiante" is very rare. 



Period, rather late. 

 Length, 9 cm. 

 Museum no. 83458. 



Fig. 11. — Bow, "snake"-shaped of "wire" bronze; hinge, two and 

 one-half circles to the left; channel much higher on the right side, 



1 Das Grabfeld von Hallstatt, Vienna, 1868. 



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