Details for Artifact 143
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Portugal (Cat No:12981, MNA 998.78.47)
Portugal > Portalegre > Avis > Maranhão > Herdade da Ordem 1
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Photograph by K. Lillios, courtesy of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Andrade, M. 2016. As placas voticas da ‘Anta Grande’ da Ordem (Maranhão, Avis): um marco na historiografia do estudo das placas de cisto gravadas do Sudoeste peninsular, In Terra e Agua. Escolher sementes, invocar a Deusa. Estudos em Homenagem a Victor S. Gonçalves. Ed. A. C. Sousa, A. Carvalho, and C. Viegas. Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. Fig. 8
Formal Data
Raw Material: dark grey slate
Height: 18.4 cm
Weight: g
Condition: nearly complete
Life Stage: finished
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: bipartite
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 1
Perforation Form: biconical?
Major Type: Classic
Height: 18.4 cm
Weight: g
Condition: nearly complete
Life Stage: finished
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: bipartite
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 1
Perforation Form: biconical?
Major Type: Classic
Plaque Details
Strap Shape: straight
Strap Angle: horizontal/level
No. Left Straps: 4
No. Right Straps: 4
Collar Shape: straight
Collar Fill: filled
Other Top Motifs:
Strap Angle: horizontal/level
No. Left Straps: 4
No. Right Straps: 4
Collar Shape: straight
Collar Fill: filled
Other Top Motifs:
collar
straps
Bands: 3 (1E, 1F, 1E) straps
Structure: hybrid
Registers: 04
Elements: triangle, checkerboard
triangle
checkerboard
Iterations: 8 triangle, 6+ triangle, 6+ checkerboard, 6 checkerboard
Registers: 04
Elements: triangle, checkerboard
triangle
checkerboard
Iterations: 8 triangle, 6+ triangle, 6+ checkerboard, 6 checkerboard
Engraving Style: regular
Specific Markers:
General Markers:
Specific Markers:
also illustrated in Almagro Gorbea 1973, fig. 47, 124, broken into at least 5 pieces, some reglued, also illustrated in Leisner and Leisner 1959, Tafel 14, 1, 55, in private image