• r8-hob-38-10
    HoB 38: Bone toggle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bone toggle

    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    BI66.004
    Material
    Bone
    Object Type
    Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E1 - E5 / S99 - S103 *94.8 - 94.2
    Findspot
    E1-5 / S99-103 *94.8-94.2
    Description
    Bone worked into a cylindrical shape that is narrower in the center than at the edges; a round hole through the middle. The ends are deeply indented. Entire surface smoothed. A crack on one side.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.055, W. at ends 0.017, W. at middle 0.014.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR