Gaming Piece or Jewelry

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U03bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.098
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Gaming Piece or Jewelry (?)
ITEM: Astragalus
MATERIAL: Bone
Photograph 05dpnk1319 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Astragalus, or knucklebone, from Ovis aries or Capra hircus (sheep or goat); left side with perforation bored through it. Heavily burned on one side.
DIMENSIONS
Length: 27 mm. Width: 17 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex. Structures A-D. From patchy burnt areas located on or just above the floor of Room 2 (the southern room).
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 99CT05U00bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: None
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Gaming Piece or Jewelry (?)
ITEM: Astragalus
MATERIAL: Bone
Photograph 05dpnk1314 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Astragalus, or knucklebone, from a subadult Sus domesticus (domestic pig); left side with a hole bored on one side. The edge of this hole is beveled. Some areas of loss on the surface.
DIMENSIONS
Greatest medial length: 30.01 mm. Distal breadth: 17.5 mm.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex. Found at the base of the Structure A glacis, south end.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT05U00bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: None
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Gaming Piece or Jewelry (?)
ITEM: Astragalus
MATERIAL: Bone
DESCRIPTION
A group of six astragali, ovicaprid knucklebones, together with six fragments that belong to at least two more bones, were found in the inner room. Only two of them have evidence of being worked. One (not worked, shown at lower left on the plates) has become green in parts as a result of contact with copper alloy. One of the worked examples is flattened on the lateral side (pl. 02 bottom row third from left); the other is flattened on all four sides (pls. 01 and 02 bottom right). Four of them are right, two left.
Photograph 12dpkc0828 Ben Claasz Coockson.
DIMENSIONS
CONTEXT
These pieces were recovered from the burned debris above the heavily burned floor of the inner room. They were only recognized as objects in the course of post-excavation study of animal bones from the Palatial Complex.
PUBLICATION

Bead

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 96TT15U22bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K96.028
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Bead
ITEM: Bead
MATERIAL: Bone
Photograph 05dpnk1306 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Bead with round stringing hole.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 4 mm. Height: 3.5 mm. Thickness: 1 mm.
CONTEXT
North Sector.
PUBLICATION

Inlay

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 02TR02U01bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: None
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Inlay
ITEM: Inlay
MATERIAL: Bone
Photograph 05dpnk1315 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Disk.
DIMENSIONS
CONTEXT
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR15U01bon01
KERKENES INVENTORY: None
CLASSIFICATION: Bone / Bone Object
TYPE: Inlay
ITEM: Inlay
MATERIAL: Bone
Photograph 12dpkc1482.
DESCRIPTION
Worked bone inlay, found in a bag of animal bones sent to METU to be studied by zooarchaeologist Evangelia Piskin. Returned to Kerkenes Finds depot 02.09.2012.
DIMENSIONS
Length: 8 mm.
Width: 21 mm.
CONTEXT
PUBLICATION