object

Brooch

Objects

A named ornamental pin or clasp of later dress practice. Not a fibula alone, not a cameo dump, and not a torque.

Also known as Dress brooch

Hellenic religion

  • Brooch appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names pins and brooches among the fastenings of cloaks. A named brooch in that epic, not armlet as the arm-band and not a modern safety-pin dump.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.