The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932-1939

b66-B227

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Bone and Ivory See all items with this value

14-R See all items with this value

Tr. 4, from below drain in SE. angle of walls.

Ivory knife handle. Incised on each side: two birds facing each other and pulling a worm (?). Large fragment from one side including almost all of one bird missing: mended. max l: .067: max dia: .02. Several short incised lines resembling the footprints of birds occur in two or more places between the main designs. [symbol] incised on end of handle. Handle cylindrical at outer end. Part of iron knife and the rivets which held it on preserved. Found with one Lat A sherd and red and black varnished of III A.D. through Hellenistic: one Roman lamp, Antioch Group VI.

4/11/1938 See all items with this value

N. 24/8

Turkey See all items with this value

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