Agora Object: IL 2010
Inventory Number:   IL 2010
Section Number:   ΒΖ 1407
Excavation Number:   handler:2006:f:122
Title:   Iron Lid for Chytra
Category:   Iron and Lead
Description:   Iron disk (mended from five fragments) and shaft (mended from two fragments). Chip missing from the disk. Both very corroded. Bulbous corrosion products on underside of disk, bronze adhering to one area. Bones incorporated into the corrosion of the shaft.
Round, flat iron disk with raised edge. Iron shaft, square in section, originally attached and projecting from center of disk. Found sitting on top of the mouth of chytra P 35446, possibly serving as its lid, with the shaft poking through a hole at the bottom of it.
One vial and one small bag of related fragments.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   On top of vessel mouth P 35446, west of Wall 7.
Handling:   handle carefully wearing gloves; there are very fragile bone fragments attached to the shank
Notebook Page:   8119
Dimensions:   Diam. (disk) 0.068; L. (shaft) 0.102
Material:   Iron
Date:   3 August 2006
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/15-1/16
Elevation:   52.167m.
Masl:   52.167m.
Lot:   Lot ΒΖ 1638
Basket:   handler:2006:b:71
Bibliography:   Hesperia 90 (2021), pp. 81, 83, 84, figs. 4, 7.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 90 (2021)
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Card: IL 2010