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HoB 234: Bronze needle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bronze needle
- Date
- Early Iron Age, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M11.001
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork, Weaving Equipment
- Metalwork Type
- Weaving Equipment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W4 - W6 / S100 - S108 *95.5 - 94.85
- Findspot
- W4-6 / S100-108 *95.5-94.85
- Description
Long bronze needle, complete. Tapered shaft with a sharp point at one end and a pointed head with pierced oval eye at other. Bent about 2.5 cm below head.
Early Iron Age.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.12, Th. at head 0.002.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR