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Garment pin University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept. manuscripttext eng Slender item is heavily encrusted with corrosion. At the narrow end, a sharp point is exposed. The other end is adorned with a solid ball with a flat circular plate on top of that. The shaft appears to be a solid cylinder which is pierced by a forged bore between 3 and 4 cm. below the embellished end. The hole is clear of debris. The walls of the shaft are distended by the bore. Colt Archaeological Institute, Excavations at Nessana, p. 53, pl. XXIII, no. 4. Slender item is heavily encrusted with corrosion. At the narrow end, a sharp point is exposed. The other end is adorned with a solid ball with a flat circular plate on top of that. The shaft appears to be a solid cylinder which is pierced by a forged bore between 3 and 4 cm. below the embellished end. The hole is clear of debris. The walls of the shaft are distended by the bore. Condition: Good. Heavy corrosion obscures the surface fibulae fasteners Pins and needles Clothing and dress, Ancient Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Garment pin

University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept.

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Slender item is heavily encrusted with corrosion. At the narrow end, a sharp point is exposed. The other end is adorned with a solid ball with a flat circular plate on top of that. The shaft appears to be a solid cylinder which is pierced by a forged bore between 3 and 4 cm. below the embellished end. The hole is clear of debris. The walls of the shaft are distended by the bore.

Colt Archaeological Institute, Excavations at Nessana, p. 53, pl. XXIII, no. 4.

Slender item is heavily encrusted with corrosion. At the narrow end, a sharp point is exposed. The other end is adorned with a solid ball with a flat circular plate on top of that. The shaft appears to be a solid cylinder which is pierced by a forged bore between 3 and 4 cm. below the embellished end. The hole is clear of debris. The walls of the shaft are distended by the bore.

Condition: Good. Heavy corrosion obscures the surface

fibulae

fasteners

Pins and needles

Clothing and dress, Ancient

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection