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Details for Artifact 188

Museu Conde Castro de Guimarães, Portugal
Portugal > Lisboa > Cascais > Estoril > Alapraia 2
Images Plaque: slate, Estoril, Lisboa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/96897289@N02/36423449961)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96897289@N02/36423449961
Leisner 1965, Tafel 71, 88

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Formal Data Raw Material: slate
Height: 16.5 cm
Weight: g
Condition: nearly complete
Life Stage: finished
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: transitional
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 1
Perforation Form: unknown
Major Type: Transitional
Plaque Details
Strap Shape: n.a.
Strap Angle: n.a.
No. Left Straps: n.a.
No. Right Straps: n.a.
Collar Shape: n.a.
Collar Fill: n.a.
Other Top Motifs:
variant
chevron
ocular
Bands: 0
Structure: hybrid
Registers: 06
Elements: triangles, inverted triangles, linear incised chevrons
triangle
inverted triangle
linear designs
Iterations: 6, 6, 14 inv. tri., 11 tri, 17 inv. tri
Engraving Style: regular
Specific Markers:
Perforation/s over Design
General Markers:
High Quality
Idiosyncratic Design
Perforation with Wear
 
Miscellany 01/02/2003
also illustrated in Almagro Gorbea 1973, fig. 49, 162 and Gonçalves 1995. This is of a unique type, with chevron motifs on top and partial perforations as ‘eyes’. Perforation heavily worn as if hung for long time.
 
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