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- KM201 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
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Cut from mammalian long bone.
- Technique
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Surface is highly polished and carving is fine (cf. KM199).
- 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 at bottom and narrows at neck right below attachment of head.
- Preservation description
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Intact but missing head. Slight, sparse pitting. Moderate, extensive patches of reddish brown staining.
- Published as
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GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1246, 1247, no. 965, fig. 28.5
- Diameter
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0.003
- Diameter
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0.007
- Preserved length
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0.1083
- Chronology comment
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Context dated mid-1st-mid-3rd century
- Explanation of deposition
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Funerary adornment for this woman, worn in hair on upper right side to back.
- Material
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Bone (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
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Locus T07-031
- Location in unit
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Lower fill inside north central cist of Loculus 7-I, under east side of fragmentary occipital of T7-I-B.
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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