Needle with slave bust; silver; gold; cast; chased; silver; remains of gilding; Total: Height: 4.8 cm; Height: 1.9 cm (bust); Width: 0.9 cm; Depth: 1.1 cm; garment decoration; man; types of people; Middle Imperial period; needle shaft and crowning of this garment needle are cast in one piece. The lower end is broken off. Remains of the former gilding are partially preserved. A bust of an elderly man with a pointed chin; wrinkled forehead; large protruding ears and a bald skull with a braided mop of hair (lat. cirrus) can be recognized on a five-petalled capital and a globe. On the back of the bust there is a ring eyelet. The representation is grotesquely distorted and should rather be seen as an apotropaic image of hunchbacked beggars and slaves.