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| Inventory Number: | J 229 | |
| Section Number: | ΒΖ 551 | |
| Conservation Number: | 3234 | |
| Title: | Carved Ring Bezel | |
| Category: | Jewelry & Gems | |
| Description: | Intact carved (carnelian?) ring bezel. Oval, slightly curved back flaring to curved face. Helmeted, draped female figure facing right. Possibly winged, or holding drapery in her right hand (holds a cornucopia), bent up at the elbow, left hand held down with a sheat of wheat (?). Other indistinct attributes in background (below the wheat a poppy or a sistrum? At her feet a ship's rudder.) C. Lawton identifies her as Fortuna Panthea. Dark orange, translucent stone. | |
| Context: | Beneath North Byzantine road surface in loose fill. | |
| Handling: | in zip lock bag | |
| Notebook Page: | 2751 | |
| Negatives: | 99-60-6(7,8,9,10,11,12) | |
| Dimensions: | L. 0.014; W. 0.0105; Th. 0.003 | |
| Material: | carnelian | |
| Date: | 11 June 1999 | |
| Section: | ΒΖ | |
| Grid: | J/20-1/9 | |
| Elevation: | 55.383m. | |
| Masl: | 55.383m. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 247, no. 1, fig. 7. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 72 (2003) Report: 1999 Excavations Images (6) Card: J 229 |
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