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: mid-1st-mid-3rd century

Explanation of deposition

Funerary adornment for an adult (T7-VI-A/B/C/D), worn on neck or head.

Material

Bone (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus T07-041

Location in unit

Lower fill inside southwest central cist of Loculus 7-VI, undisturbed beneath cervical vertebrae near KM223 and KM224.

Drawing

Photograph