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| Mended from two fragments, broken at one end. Burnt bone discolored black and white and cracked.
Length of bone, roughly square in section, slightly flaring at preserved end with palmette stamp carved ... 24 June 2005 ... Length of bone, roughly square in section, slightly flaring at preserved end with palmette stamp carved into it. Stamp is slightly off the long vertical axis. Palmette with seven petals springing from two volutes.
... Placed in a polystyrene box with a support made from ethafoam and Tyvek. |
| Echinus carved with three egg and dart and palmettes at sides. Eyes of volutes carved with eight-petal rosettes around center eye. Volute over echinus carved with lotus rising from two spirals with seven-petalled ... 29 August 1961 ... Echinus carved with three egg and dart and palmettes at sides. Eyes of volutes carved with eight-petal rosettes around center eye. Volute over echinus carved with lotus rising from two spirals with seven-petalled palmette set sidewise at each side. |
| Broken off below.
Sides are smooth with no traces of tool marks. Back rough-picked.
Separating the shaft and anthemion is an inscribed fascia with a beveled soffit:
Carved in moderate relief in a shallow ... 13 December 1994 ... Separating the shaft and anthemion is an inscribed fascia with a beveled soffit:
Carved in moderate relief in a shallow shell is a split palmette composed of two six-leaved half-palmettes with a four-petaled flower between them, which spring, along with their volutes, from thick cauliculae. The leaves of the palmette are broad with even spacing between each one. Ten-leaved half-palmettes with volutes flank the central split palmette, springing from the same akanthos calyx.
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| Low foot; inside, three deeply cut rings. Two horizontal handles, grooved. On rim, in white paint, pattern of alternating palmette and spirals.
Coarse buff-pink clay; matte paint, almost orange inside ... 9-17 June 1933 |
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