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- KM214 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
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Cut from mammalian long bone.
- 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 toward both ends in alignment with longitudinal axis. Simple pin without ornamental head?
- Preservation description
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Intact but missing head. Heavy, extensive erosion and pitting; slight longitudinal fracturing
- Published as
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GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1246-1247, no. 967, fig. 28.5
- Diameter
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0.003
- Diameter
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0.007
- Preserved length
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0.115
- Chronology comment
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Context: mid-1st-mid-3rd century
- Explanation of deposition
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Funerary adornment for this woman, worn on back of head.
- Material
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Bone (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
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Locus T07-039
- Location in unit
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Lower fill inside south cist of Loculus 7-V, undisturbed under upper occipital region of cranium T7-V-A near south wall.
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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