KM213 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Cut from mammalian long bone.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Pin

Typological identification

Worked Bone

Description

Thin bone pin tapers toward narrow tip and somewhat thicker head, slightly offset from longitudinal axis of shaft. Probably simple pin without ornamental head.

Preservation description

One fragment broken at both ends preserves most of shaft. Heavy, extensive pitting and slight longitudinal fracturing.

Published as

GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1247, no. 967, fig. 28.5

Diameter

0.002

Diameter

0.006

Preserved length

0.099

Chronology comment

Context dated mid-1st-mid-3rd century

Material

Bone (Material)

Drawing

Photograph