KM201 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Cut from mammalian long bone.
Technique
Surface is highly polished and carving is fine (cf. KM199).
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Worked Bone
Description
Thin bone pin tapers at bottom and narrows at neck right below attachment of head.
Preservation description
Intact but missing head. Slight, sparse pitting. Moderate, extensive patches of reddish brown staining.
Published as
GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1246, 1247, no. 965, fig. 28.5
Diameter
0.003
Diameter
0.007
Preserved length
0.1083
Chronology comment
Context dated mid-1st-mid-3rd century
Material
Bone (Material)
Drawing
Photograph