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simple geometric motifs, crosses, figures of animals (snakes, birds, and lions),
and humans. Also quite numerous are buckles with a movable plate and a
badge, which are decorated with analogous motifs, among which there is one
with an image of Daniel in the Lion’s Den, a “Corinthian” type with a triangular
traforata plate, and another with a fixed lyre-shaped or “Syracuse” type plate
(Fig. 16.1). The Byzantine village of San Filitica a Sorso (Sassari) brought forth
two rare buckles carved from deer antlers, one of which has a fixed plate and
is decorated with impressed dice-eye.6 In a tomb in Porto Torres, a fibula with
a bronze and gold cover of an “onion bulb” type was found, typical of a high-
ranking military figure, and datable to between the fourth and sixth centuries.7
6 Daniela Rovina, “I prodotti finiti della lavorazione del corno,” in “Attività produttive
nell’insediamento romano e altomedievale di Santa Filitica (Sorso-SS),” by Elisabetta Garau,
Paola Mameli, Daniela Rovina, and Barbara Wilkens, Erentzias 1 (2011). The two buckles were
found together with parts of combs and pieces of semi-finished antlers, in an environment
that was reused in the sixth century and interpreted as the workshop of a craftsman.
7 On the fibula from Porto Torres, see Antonio Sanciu, “Porto Torres (Sassari). Area urbana,”
Bollettino di Archeologia del Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali 19/21 (1993), pp. 201–
203; on the one from Abini, see Serra, “L’armamento,” p. 153.
Figure 16.1 Buckle with U-shaped plate decorated with a bird and snake; “Corinthian”
perforated plate; buckle with badge decorated with Daniel in the Lion’s Den
(7th–8th c.).