KM224 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Pin) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Cut from mammalian long bone.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Pin
Description
Thin bone pin tapers toward one end, slightly offset from longitudinal axis of shaft.
Preservation description
One fragment broken at both ends preserves ca. 33% of shaft. Moderate, extensive pitting and slight longitudinal fracturing; slight to moderate, sparse encrustation.
Published as
GrahamReese2022, pp. 1239-1240, 1247, 1248, no. 969, fig. 28.5
Diameter
0.002
Diameter
0.003
Preserved length
0.028
Chronology comment
Context dated mid-1st-mid-3rd century
Material
Bone (Material)
Drawing
Photograph