Identification Number: 11TR24U07met01

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K11.252

Classification: Metal / Architectural Iron

Finding Type: Iron Band

Item: Iron band with four circular perforations

Material: Iron

Images

Photograph 11dpcc0603 by Joseph Lehner.Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.

Description

Large folded iron band with four circular perforations punched from the same direction and a dome-headed iron nail held in situ by a small nail inserted from the opposite side. There are no immediately visible forge welds of sections, suggesting that this band was forged from a single piece of iron. Both ends are fastened by the dome-headed nail the lower portion of which is bent at 90 degrees so that it is parallel with the band. The small nail inserted from the other side secured the larger one. The band has been bent, as though fitted around a post in such a way that the burrs that were formed when the holes were punched were on the outer face. One end has been hammered and given a rounded shape whereas the other end has been cut straight from both sides.

Dimensions

Total unfolded length: 1602 mm. Width at rounded end: 68 mm. Width at squared end: 56 mm. Thickness at rounded end: 5 mm. Thickness at squared end: 6 mm. Distance between perforations: 381 mm.Diameter of perforations: 11 to 12 mm.

Context

Cappadocia Gate, collapse in near part of the central passage.

Publication

Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.