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Fabric Category Terracotta
Object Type Vessel
Motif Braid
Decorative Technique Incised
Vessel Form Pithos
Object Type (notes) Pithos Fragment with Braided Ridge
Size Max. Pres. Length 0.149 m, Max. Pres. Width 0.129 m, Max. Pres. Thickness (through ridge) 0.040 m, Min. Pres. Thickness 0.032 m
Condition Surfaces are heavily worn, pitted, and encrusted; numerous inclusions are visible throughout the fabric. There is a very large, fresh chip at one end due to damage from modern tools used in excavation.
Fabric Description Terracotta
Munsell Color 10YR 5/3 brown, 7.5YR 5/8 strong brown, 10YR 7/3 very pale brown
Description Pithos fragment preserves portion of a ridge approx. 0.113 m in length and 0.015 m in width, decorated with a series of shallow depressions, giving it a braided appearance. There is also a long, diagonal, finger-incised line to one side of the ridge, 0.006 m in width.
Legacy Database Artifact ID 20120055
Year Excavated 2012
Year Cataloged 2012
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Photo 20120055 Back
Photo 20120055 Front
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Object Master Grid
EW (x) NS (y) Depth (z) Elev. (z)
57.92 -36.33 27.14
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Contributor
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Theresa Huntsman info
Vocabulary: Murlo
Subject
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Coverage
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Iron age info
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Open Context References: Iron age hub
Temporal Coverage
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Creator
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Anthony Tuck info
Vocabulary: Murlo
Suggested Citation

Theresa Huntsman. (2017) "PC 20120055 from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Civitate A/Civitate A 70/2012, ID:652". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/ad32724c-20fb-411f-b7e9-dbb5fd889e9a> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2zw1rj1d

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