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HoB 590: Bone pin. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bone pin
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BI62.002
- Material
- Bone
- Object Type
- Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 / S105 to *98.5
- Findspot
- E5 / S105 To *98.50 ⁓ Building A, west face
- Description
- Round bone pin. Nearly complete; tan. Pointed end missing. Roughly circular section; tapering to a point at one end; cone-shaped head, pointed at top; below head, three deep horizontal grooves forming two ridges, each with shallow grooves.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.078, D. 0.004–0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD