Chersonesos - Record View Page: CH05SR

Archival Resource Key: ark:/87610/t66h2r/sfi_cd/CH05SR_3191

Short Description Object (carved bone)
Description Longitudinal in plan; gently convergent sides over 4,4, cm length from width 1,4 cm to width 1.1 cm; in end profile curved (section through the bone); upper convex surface decorated; reverse concave, un finished, medullar cavities revealed; decoration comprises (from wide end) 2 lateral parallel wavy lines with dots, reticulate patterned area, lateral line of circles with concentric ring and inner hole, 2 straight lateral parallel lines, undecorated space, 1 straight lateral line, 1 curved line; evidence of continuance of pattern shows this to be a fragment of a (possibly) tubular object.

Context: CH05SR_509
- Mottled gray/dark gray ashy fine silt loam; the section for metallurgical samples was 6.8M X 4.2M. Basically from wall 49 south to tomb 3 and east to walls 31/32 (sketch on back). Small stones with medium concentration of cutural material (ceramics, tile…); a couple of small patches of 7.5YR 3/1 very dark gray ash; several stoppers from courtyard and extension, apparently made from tile recovered