| Collection: | Agora | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | BI 410 | |
| Inventory Number: | BI 410 | |
| Section Number: | ΟΑ 190 | |
| Title: | Bone Artifact | |
| Category: | Bone & Ivory | |
| Description: | From base of an antler antifact from cervus elaphus. Full length apparently preserved. Surface has been smoothed; one branch cut off close; another cut off neatly above its root, where there is a large horizontal piercing. The lower end is worn very smooth. "The lower part of the beam, with burr removed, at the broken junction of the brow tine. It was perforated just on the tine junction, and bears the imprint of cord or gut wound tightly around it, either to prevent the antler splitting, or to grip firmly whatever (handle or shaft) passed through the perforation, or both. Apparently an antler hammer or hoe. Similar artifacts are common all over Europe from mesolithic times onwards, as well as other Greek Bronze Age sites". (Phelps, 1966). | |
| Context: | Well Q. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 83-531 | |
| Dimensions: | L. 0.168; W. 0.059 | |
| Date: | 7 June 1937 | |
| Section: | ΟΑ | |
| Elevation: | -3.00m. | |
| Deposit: | S 27:2 | |
| Period: | Bronze Age | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XIII, p. 95, pl. 28, no. 406. | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XIII Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 116, p. 95 Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 293, p. 272 Image: 2012.56.1253 (83-531) Deposit: S 27:2 Card: BI 410 Card: BI 410 |
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