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Artifact 160

Museu dos Serviços Geológicos, Portugal (Cat No:302.13, 16/8/922)
Portugal > Lisboa > Sintra > Bélas > Dolmen das Conchadas

Images

Photograph by K. Lillios, courtesy of Museu dos Serviços Geológicos
Leisner and Leisner 1965, Tafel 27, 64

Full Reference

Formal Data

dark grey slate
15 cm
151 g
complete
finished
trapezoidal
bipartite
intermediate
2
biconical
Classic

Plaque Details

n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.

fishnet
0
hybrid
03
triangle, inverted triangle
triangle
inverted triangle
3, 3, 3
intermediate

Irregular Design Element/s
Misperforation
Ambiguous Field/Ground

Evidence for Chaîne Opératoire
Ambiguous Field/Ground
Poor Quality
Mnemonic?
Mnemonic
Chaîne Opératoire-Misc.
only 4 register lines engraved, and 3 on obverse - could be evidence of mistake
 

Miscellany

06/23/2003
also partially engraved on reverse, possibly an error, in which 4 rows were produced, instead of the 3 of the finished piece; also illustrated in Almagro Gorbea 1973, fig. 41, 58, broken in at least 7 pieces but repaired
 
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