Object type
buckle tag
Culture/period
Medieval
Materials
bronze
Technique
casting
Mint
Production date
601 / 700
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Tàrraco. Necròpolis Paleocristiana
Township
Tarragona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Tarragona, Tarragonès)
Dimensions
7,8 cm
Description
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From the Early-Christian Necropolis, this Visigothic belt buckle presents a lyre-shaped silhouette decorated with nerves on the outside and a stylised snake that surrounds the plaque, on the inside of which a crocodile is depicted. It is the schematisation of the fable of the snake and the crocodile of the Physiologist, common in Byzantine gold-and silverwork.
© Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
Omeka ID
1865