| Inventory Number: | J 25 | |
| Section Number: | ΟΧ 48 | |
| Title: | Gold Leaves | |
| Category: | Jewelry & Gems | |
| Description: | There are 85 more or less complete leaves, and about 50 fair sized fragments. The leaves range in length (from 0.03 to 0.066). Made of thin gold foil, folded and cut in paper doll style, each having three ridges to points, two furrows to the intervening indentations (cut longer, with longer points). Some of the small ones are made by pressing pieces together. About a dozen have a distinct reddish discoloration. ADDENDA: gold chips and small bronze bit found in bag of soil (M. Liston, May 2010). | |
| Context: | Found in a marble coffer ST 197 (OX 47), over and among bones. Cf. AA 319. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 6-158 | |
| Dimensions: | L. (leaves) 0.066 | |
| Date: | 17 March 1936 | |
| Section: | ΟΧ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 32 (1963), p. 126, no. L 2. | |
| Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 366, fig. 27. | ||
| AJA 40 (1936), p. 200, fig. 25. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937) Publication: Hesperia 32 (1963) Image: 2012.24.0282 (6-158) Card: J 25 Card: J 25 |
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