Object card·SAL_3565·1968

Ivory bone pin with incised decoration, Sondage Y

Ivory bone pin with incised decoration, Sondage Y
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3565. "Ivory bone pin with incised decoration, Sondage Y". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Incomplete bone pin of ivory bone, shank broken at mid-body, L. 5.5 cm. Made from a single piece, very carefully polished; the cylindrical shank is thinned below the pear-shaped head, where it is decorated with two groups of five parallel circles, finely incised around the shank. Found with pins Sal_3570 and Sal_3563; the archaeological context indicates the 3rd century AD. Salamis, Sondage Y, square y II. Inventory Po_0258; 9 September 1968.

French, as on the record

pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0492_p_0171 — Os ivoirin num planche : PL_48 chantier : Sondage Y num planche : PL_70 type :ÉPINGLES EN OS incomplète, tige brisée à mi-corps. L. : 5,5. — Épingle faite d’une seule pièce, très soigneusement polie. La tige cylindrique est amincie sous la tête où elle est décorée de deux groupes de cinq cercles parallèles, finement incisés au tour. La tête est en poire. — Trouvée avec les épingles Sal_3570 et Sal_3563 : le contexte archéologique indique le IIIe s. ap. J.-C. carre : y II diapositives : C_3404 forme : Épingles à tête plus importante inv objet : Po_0258 negatif : 00520_02 negatif : 00875_03

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