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