Identification Number: 11TR24U07met03

Kerkenes Inventory ID:

Classification: Metal / Architectural Iron

Finding Type: Iron Band

Item: Iron band with four circular perforations

Material: Iron

Images

Photograph 11dpkc3227 by Joseph Lehner.Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.

Description

Bent iron band with four circular perforations punched from the same direction with four in situ dome-headed iron nails. The metal is nearly completely mineralized and broken into several pieces. Remnant corrosion makes some measurements imprecise. The nails do not go through two perforations probably suggesting that although the band was purposefully folded it was attached with four nails rather than two. There are wooden pseudomorphs preserved in places.

Dimensions

Total unfolded length: 880 mm. Width at rounded end: 54 mm. Width at squared end: 56 mm. Thickness at rounded end: 6 mm. Thickness at squared end: 4 mm. Distance between perforations: circa 110 to 130 mm. The dome-headed nails are square in section, measurable lengths: 87 and 74 mm. Diameter of heads: 15 and 22 mm.

Context

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

Publication

Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.