Corinth Object: MF 2009 11 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 2009 11 | | Title: | | BRONZE KEY | | Category Code: | | MF | | Year: | | 2009 | | Object Number: | | 11 | | Description: | | Bronze key with a hollow cylindrical shaft with wards at one end and pierced semicircular edge at the other, to which is attached a movable ring-handle with notched incisions around the circumference and a small knob on top. Wards are solid and roughly square-shaped divided into two square holes below, a rectangular and a round one above. Cf. MF 5352 (Corinth XII, p. 138, no. 980, pl. 70). | | Material: | | Bronze | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Intact. Some wear on movable ring, but otherwise in excellent condition. | | Manufacture: | | OT-cast | | Dimensions Actual: | | L. 0.055, Diam. of ring 0.021 | | Period: | | Byzantine | | Chronology: | | 10th-12th c. A.C. (Corinth XII, p. 138). | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 6409, LOT 2009 051 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2010 4336
Basket: Nezi Field, context 6409
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