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    HoB 718: 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.
BI14.005
Material
Bone
Object Type
Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Pot Hoard A at *99.05
B-Grid Coordinates
W19 / S99 *99.05
Findspot
W19 / S99 *99.05 ⁓ floors south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
Description
Poorly preserved, end broken, trimmed at both rounded sides. Pin head, knobbed; two thin ridges above and below a torus.
Dimensions
H. 0.041, W. 0.019.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD