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Details for Artifact 144

Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Portugal (Cat No:12461, 995.43.7)
Portugal > Evora > Mora > Pavia > Brissos 1
Images Plaque: dark grey slate, Pavia, Evora (Photograph by K. Lillios, courtesy of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia)
Photograph by K. Lillios, courtesy of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Leisner and Leisner 1959, Tafel 21, 1, 12

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Formal Data Raw Material: dark grey slate
Height: 15 cm
Weight: 193 g
Condition: 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/downward
No. Left Straps: 3
No. Right Straps: 3
Collar Shape: n.a.
Collar Fill: n.a.
Other Top Motifs:
straps
Bands: 1E
Structure: simple
Registers: 06
Elements: checkerboard
Iterations: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Engraving Style: regular
Specific Markers:
Uneven Register Spacing
Downward sloping (toward r) top-base line and/or bands
Wobbly Register Lines
General Markers:
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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