-
- KM223 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
-
Cut from mammalian long bone.
- Technique
-
Heavily weathered but extant surface reveals fine polishing.
- Logical part of
-
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
-
Worked Bone
- Description
-
Thin bone pin tapers toward both ends, slightly offset from longitudinal axis of shaft. Uncertain whether this had ornamental head.
- Preservation description
-
One fragment broken at both ends preserves most of shaft. Heavy, extensive pitting and slight longitudinal fracturing; slight, sparse encrustation.
- Published as
-
GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1247, no. 968, fig. 28.5
- Diameter
-
0.003
- Diameter
-
0.006
- Preserved length
-
0.071
- 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 KM213 and KM224.
- Drawing
-
- Photograph
-
