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Artifact 144

Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Portugal (Cat No:12461, 995.43.7)
Portugal > Evora > Mora > Pavia > Brissos 1

Images

Photograph by K. Lillios, courtesy of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Leisner and Leisner 1959, Tafel 21, 1, 12

Full Reference

Formal Data

dark grey slate
15 cm
193 g
complete
finished
trapezoidal
bipartite
regular
1
biconical
Classic

Plaque Details

straight
horizontal/downward
3
3
n.a.
n.a.

straps
1E
simple
06
checkerboard
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
regular

Uneven Register Spacing
Downward sloping (toward r) top-base line and/or bands
Wobbly Register Lines

Evidence for Chaîne Opératoire
 

Miscellany

05/29/2003
looks like engraved of checkerboard begun from top to bottom as top rows larger and more evenly spaced, and then bottom 2 rows smaller. very worn, photo also on http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=129241&EntSep=5#gotoPosition
 
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