A silver and gold handle fibula with a finely... Lot 4

A silver and gold handle fibula with a finely incised decoration. Semicircular head, topped with a digitation and two lateral appendages, decorated with X-shaped stamped motifs; arrowhead-shaped foot. Visigothic art, 6th / 7th century Height: 4.5 cm - Width: 2.5 cm (missing two lateral appendages) This particularly refined little fibula is a rather rare female jewel. According to the collector, the X-shaped decoration indicates that it belongs to the Gothic or Ostrogothic peoples driven by the Huns and refugees in the Crimea, south of the peninsula of the Byzantine Empire.