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Details for Artifact 79

Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Portugal (Cat No:21871, 985.45.47)
Portugal > Evora > Reguengos de Monsaraz > Monsaraz > Olival da Pega 1
Images Plaque: slate, Monsaraz, Evora (http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=114461)
http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=114461
Leisner and Leisner 1951, XXVIII, 33

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Formal Data Raw Material: slate
Height: 13.5 cm
Weight: g
Condition: complete
Life Stage: finished?
Form: trapezoidal
Structure: bipartite
No. of Engraved Sides: regular
Perforations: 0
Perforation Form: n.a.
Major Type: Classic
Plaque Details
Strap Shape: straight
Strap Angle: horizontal/level
No. Left Straps: 3
No. Right Straps: 3
Collar Shape: curved
Collar Fill: unfilled
Other Top Motifs:
collar
straps
Bands: 5 (4F, 1E)
Structure: hybrid
Registers: 02
Elements: zigzag
triangle
inverted triangle
Iterations: 10, 9
Engraving Style: regular
Specific Markers:
Ambiguous Field/Ground
Downward sloping (toward r) bands
General Markers:
Ambiguous Field/Ground
High Quality
Same Engraver as
Idiosyncratic Design
 
Miscellany variant on zigzag, as zigzag design is the unengraved portion, engraved as ‘facing triangles’; also illustrated in Almagro Gorbea 1973, fig. 39, 14, photograph in Gonçalves 1999, fig. 4.16, can see from photo that collar is filled (but worn), could be done be same hand as 071 and 123, 1528, 1086, bands slope down on right
 
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