- KE 1451 (Early-Middle Roman Bone Container) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
- Mammalian long bone.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- Mi 357
- Typological identification
- Pyxis
- Typological identification
- Worked Bone
- Comparanda
- sim. RodriguezMartin2024, pp. 268, 269, fig. 1 (Museo de la Pioja; from Tricio, Logroño, north central Spain).
- Description
- Container for personal effects (e.g., cosmetics, perfumes, jewelry): cf. pyxis. Tall, cylindrical tube. Exterior wall recessed at top for attachment of ring-collar; interior wall recessed slightly at bottom for attached or disc-base. Body turned to create annular molding: double beads at top; double tori just above middle; and two sets of triple-grooves to create low double beads near bottom.
- Preservation description
- One half is mostly intact but broken slightly around thinner top. Moderate erosion in patches with pitting, several long logitudinal fractures, and slight chipping around edges.
- Preserved height
- 0.115
- Wall thickness
- 0.003-0.011
- Width
- 0.031
- Material
- Bone (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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