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HoB 367: Bone knife handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bone knife handle
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BI66.002
- Material
- Bone
- Object Type
- Bone and Ivory
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W0 - W3 / S98 - S100 *97.3 - 96.3
- Findspot
- W0-3 / S98-100 *97.3-96.3
- Description
- Cut bone in a rectangular shape that tapers toward the direction of where the knife blade would be. Toward the knife blade end of handle is an iron rivet.
- Dimensions
- W. 0.015, L. 0.07, Th. 0.005, Nail 0.013 × 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR