| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 4694 | |
| Title: | BRONZE BUTTONS | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 4694 | |
| Description: | Twenty-one bronze buttons: mostly globular; mostly made out of two hollow halves, top and bottom, joining horizontally; many but not all with wire suspension loop at top for sewing button on cloth. Smaller buttons likely for undergarment or shirt; larger perhaps for cassock. Similar to MF-751, MF-1816, MF-4288, MF-5188, and MF-2003-24 (Late Byzantine); also MF-2015-27, MF-2015-28, and MF-2015-40. Type common in 15th-17th c., according to C. Williams. | |
| Material: | Bronze. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. 21 pendant beads total: 13 large complete; 3 small complete; 4 large broken. | |
| Period: | Post-Medieval | |
| Chronology: | annot be earlier than 1622 CE | |
| Area: | St. John's | |
| Context: | NB150 P80 | |
| Findspot Description: | Grave 1935-19, narthex of church, found along spine of occupant of grave; MF-4774A and MF-4774B found around neck. | |
| Bibliography: | Williams and Zervos 1992, Hesperia 61:2, cat. 38 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: St. John's Basket: NB150 P80 Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 44 (pp. 79 - 80) |
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