KM224 (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

Worked Bone

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: mid-1st-mid-3rd century

Explanation of deposition

Funerary adornment for a person (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 and near KM213 and KM223.

Drawing

Photograph