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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KM 84 | | Title: | | IRON TONGS | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KM | | Object Number: | | 84 | | Description: | | Iron tongs with thin handles, flattened where they cross and are fastened by a single iron rivet. Round knob preserved on the end of one handle. Broad surfaces of handles on the same plane. Bars narrow again toward tips and are turned so that the broader surfaces face each other. | | Material: | | Iron | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Two non-joining frgts preserving all of tongs except for small portion of the center of one handle and knob from second handle. Corroded, but conserved. | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 217) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P62 | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 16, p. 217 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 2005 002 16
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 36 (pp. 62 - 63)
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