Agora Object: IL 497
Inventory Number:   IL 497
Section Number:   ΠΘ 1724
Title:   Iron Pin : Bronze Ball
Category:   Iron & Lead
Description:   Long straight pin, the point seems to lack, with a flat circular head.
A ball on the shaft some distance below the head.
Badly rusted and adhering by corrosion to IL 498.
Notes:   Agora sample no. 636.
Context:   Grave 6: found in burial amphora P 8041, with IL 495-496, IL 498-500, B 381, and P 8043.
Cf. IL 495.
Handling:   nestled in Ethafoam pad, 20% RH stable.
May 1988: nestled in Ethafoam in box inside plastic bag: consists of 9 fragments.
with gloves
Negatives:   Leica, 6-324, LVII-31, 82-406
PD Number:   PD 2774-99
Dimensions:   L. ca. 0.45; P.L. 0.17; Diam. (head) 0.033
Material:   iron
copper alloy
Date:   12 June 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:6/ΝΖ
Deposit:   C 9:13
Bibliography:   Agora XXXVI, no. T52-7, p. 364, fig. 2.254.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Image: 2012.25.0047 (6-324)
Image: 2012.56.0421 (82-406)
Image: 2012.53.0826 (LVII-31)
Deposit: C 9:13
Card: IL 497
Card: IL 497