Artist: Unknown
Date: Bronze Age - Iron Age (14th -8th century B.C.), Hellenistic - early Imperial Age, Late Antiquity
Classification: Metal Artifacts
Dimensions: Various
Materials: Bronze, Iron

The International Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums wish to thank ALMIRALL for supporting the Restoration of these precious artifacts.

The diverse group of archeological metal materials focuses on different aspects of ancient daily living. The javelin cusp (inv. 65732), datable between the 14th and 8th century B.C., refers to old socio-cultural facets and warrior activities. The other finds are mainly from the Imperial or late Antique Period, except for an arm of a statuette of a female offerer with a patera from the excavations in the Colosseum in 1812 (inv. 65739), belonging to the Hellenistic - early Imperial Age. Two statuettes of Minerva also belong to the Hellenistic - early Imperial Age, from the collection of Cardinal Carpegna (invs. 67993, 67994). There are elements from military clothing or equine finishes, buckles, applications, and pendants (inv. 64258, 64260, 64278, 64279.2.1-2). Additionally, there are medical-surgical instruments (invs. 64262, 64263, 64266), a fragment of a handle (inv. 64277), a support of a bucket or situla (inv. 67992), a dolphin-shaped appliqué (inv. 65491), an iron key (inv. 66050) and fragments of latches (inv. 64238). The mirror (inv. 66142.2.1), the rings (invs. 64243, 64253, 64282), the fragments of armilla (inv. 64270.13.1-13), and the armillae, from the 6th-7th century A.D., are attributable to a barbaric cultural environment, perhaps Lombard (invs. 66555-66556).