Details for Artifact 622
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Portugal (Cat No:12980, MNA 995.78.36)
Portugal > Portalegre > Avis > Maranhão > Herdade da Ordem 1
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Formal Data
Raw Material: dark grey slate
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 132 g
Condition: complete
Life Stage: reused
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: bipartite
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 2
Perforation Form: biconical
Major Type: Recycled Piece
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 132 g
Condition: complete
Life Stage: reused
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: bipartite
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 2
Perforation Form: biconical
Major Type: Recycled Piece
Plaque Details
Strap Shape: straight
Strap Angle: horizontal/level
No. Left Straps: 3
No. Right Straps: 3
Collar Shape: n.a.
Collar Fill: n.a.
Other Top Motifs:
Strap Angle: horizontal/level
No. Left Straps: 3
No. Right Straps: 3
Collar Shape: n.a.
Collar Fill: n.a.
Other Top Motifs:
none
Bands: 0
Structure: simple
Registers: 03+?
Elements: triangle
Iterations: 4+, 3+, 2+
Registers: 03+?
Elements: triangle
Iterations: 4+, 3+, 2+
Engraving Style: regular
Specific Markers:
General Markers:
Specific Markers:
photo also in Vasconcellos 1897, fig. 24, also illustrated in 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. 7 (in private image), also in http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=129314