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- KM355 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Technique
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Finely crafted and highly polished.
- Logical part of
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Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
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Worked Bone
- Description
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Thin bone pin tapers slightly toward one end.
- Preservation description
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One fragment broken at both ends preserves 33% of shaft. Scattered pitting and patches of black discoloration.
- Published as
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GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1248, no. 970
- Diameter
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0.003
- Preserved length
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0.025
- Chronology comment
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Context: Early-Middle Roman
- Explanation of deposition
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Funerary adornment, but early graverobbers displaced it here from Loculus 2-IV.
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Early Roman (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Middle Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
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Bone (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
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Locus T02-018
- Location in unit
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On northwest floor of chamber of Tomb 2.
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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