Object card·SAL_0920·1966

Bone pin with dolphin-shaped head, Sondage Z

Bone pin with dolphin-shaped head, Sondage Z
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0920. "Bone pin with dolphin-shaped head, Sondage Z". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Bone pin, made in one piece and incomplete, with the shaft half broken; the head is H. 3 cm, the shaft is circular in section and thickens gradually towards the head, where the section becomes elliptical. The head is carved in the form of a dolphin, with details marked by incisions; ø 0.4 x 0.3. Found in a dump of Imperial date (1st-3rd century AD), square K V/α9, Sondage Z, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Po_0070; negative 01889_02; drawing D_0251; slide C_0964; 22 September 1966.

French, as on the record

chantier : Sondage Z — Os num planche : PL_48 num planche : PL_70 type :ÉPINGLES EN OS carre : K V/α9 negatif : 01889_02 ø : 0,4 x 0,3. — Épingle faite d’une seule pièce incomplète, tige à demi-brisée. H. tête : 3 la tige de section circulaire s’épaissit graduellement jusqu’à la tête, où la section devient elliptique. La tête est sculptée en forme de dauphin, les détails sont marqués par des incisions. — Trouvée dans un déblai d’époque impériale (Ier-IIIe s. ap. J.-C.) dessin : D_0251 diapositives : C_0964 forme : Épingle à tête sculptée inv objet : Po_0070 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0494_p_0172

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