Inventory Number: | IL 350 | |
Section Number: | ΜΜ 53 | |
Title: | Lead Token | |
Category: | Iron & Lead | |
Description: | Obverse: a team of long-necked animals (horses) to right draws a cart which carries a bell-shaped object with a standard rising from its top. On top of the standard, a triangle with flying fillets. In field to right, indeterminate object. The ship 's standard or stylis, symbolizing the ship of Dionysos, and carried in the Heiros Gamos procession. Above at the right, over the animals ' heads, a ledge-like projection, uncertain; an animal crouching on its top (?) Reverse: flat, plain. Cf. Deubner (1932), Attische Feste, pp. 105-106, pls. 11, 2 and 3, 12. | |
Context: | Below top of railway wall. Late Roman. | |
Handling: | in zip lock bag in conservation with gloves | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | Diam. 0.017; Th. 0.003; Wt. 5.49 | |
Material: | Lead | |
Date: | 14 March 1936 | |
Section: | ΜΜ | |
Grid: | ΜΜ:37/Β | |
Elevation: | -1.40m. | |
Masl: | -1.4m. | |
Bibliography: | Agora X, pp. 95-96, pl. 22, no. L 88. | |
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:Deubner (1932), pp. 105-106, pls. 11, 2 and 3, 12. | |
References: | Publication: Agora X Image: 2017.12.0500 Notebook: Ζ-17 Notebook: ΜΜ-1 Notebook Page: Ζ-17-74 (pp. 3265-3266) Notebook Page: ΜΜ-1-55 (pp. 100-101) Notebook Page: ΜΜ-1-70 (pp. 130-131) Card: IL 350 Card: IL 350 |