| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2015 47 | |
| Title: | GOLD-PLATED FASTENER | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2015 | |
| Object Number: | 47 | |
| Description: | Small bronze fastener, gold-plated on both sides, with central hole (for attachment?) framed by four-petalled rosette, concave and sloping down toward hole.Two smaller holes, one on each end. Smaller holes with small, possibly silver-plated, nails, flush with top decorated surface and projecting past undersurface, head of nails on underside. | |
| Decoration: | Series of incised lines on both sides of rosette before nails. | |
| Material: | Gold-plated bronze, sliver-plated(?) nails. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete; possibly missing nail for cental hole(?). Gold plating worn on some edges of rosette. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L. 0.015, W. 0.003 (arms), W. 0.006 (flower), Th. 0.001, Th. 0.003 (including nails), Diam. 0.0025 (hole) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | based on context | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | Temple E, Southeast, context 827 | |
| Findspot Description: | Found in sieve. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: digital 2015 3635 Image: digital 2015 3636 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 827 |
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