KM160 (Prehistoric Obsidian Blade) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Flaked Stone Tool
Description
Truncated blade, proximal segment. Plain platform. Dorsal has series of flake removals from central arris to left and right. Retouch on distal edge is direct, small to medium, abrupt, irregular; marginal at left, reaches to dorsal surface at right. Triangular cross-section.
Preservation description
Roughly one-half preserved.
Published as
Kardulias2022, pp. 1217, 1222-1223, 1224, no. 935, fig. 26.2
Length
0.0284
Thickness
0.0048
Weight (kg)
0.00152
Width
0.0104
Explanation of deposition
Residual in Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil across central ridge, around tomb 10.
Material
Obsidian (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRC0701-003
Location in unit
In upper level, north of dromos of Tomb 10.
Drawing
Photograph
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