Μετάλλινες περόνες πρώην Συλλογής Κων/νου Λάμπρου από τη Συλλογή Έργων Μεταλλοτεχνίας του Εθνικού Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου

Abstract

This article presents forty-two unpublished metal pins (41 copper-based and 1 silver) housed in the National Archaeological Museum (Collection of Metal Artefacts). In the past, they were part of the Collection of doctor Konstantinos Lambros, confiscated in Berlin and repatriated to Greece in 1899. Unfortunately their provenance is unknown, as well as their function (ex-voto? burial offerings? part of a dead’s clothing?). A typological and stylistic analysis based on research-established typologies and comparison with published examples from various sites have let us date the majority of the pins from the Submycenean/Protogeometric to the Archaic period and consider them products of ancient workshops activated mostly in central Greece and the Peloponnese. All the copper-based pins are made of bronze (binary copper-tin alloy).