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Offline Mayadigger

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ID for X-shaped artifact, please
« on: August 10, 2022, 03:07:12 pm »
Ave!

Copper alloy; 40mm/11.1

Looks to be Roman...but what is it?  ??? ??? ???

Thanks in advance,

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Re: ID for X-shaped artifact, please
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2022, 08:11:25 am »
Not sure.  The hole implies it was attached to something but the ends of the four propeller blades seem made to have something but up against them....

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Re: ID for X-shaped artifact, please
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2022, 05:56:43 pm »
Must be a water faucet handle. Just kidding, but not really. Maybe something to open a valve. What is interesting is the notches at the ends of each prong of the "handle."

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Re: ID for X-shaped artifact, please
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2022, 09:16:32 am »
I was trying to remember where I had seen those notches.

They are at the ends of the bars that make up the central part of the 2nd-3rd century hollow rectangular belt-plates.  The bar is a separate piece - in the form of a spindle - and has those flat notches or edges on each end.  They fit under the rectangular frame.  See my gallery image below:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3014&pid=161652#top_display_media


So perhaps this means that your object was in a square frame of some sort.....

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Re: ID for X-shaped artifact, please
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2022, 04:25:53 pm »
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Must be a water faucet handle. Just kidding, but not really.

Don't laugh, Virgil, but I've have actually been sent such... This is not one of them. Ha ha!

Sean, it looks like we'll need to do further research on this oddity. LOL!

Thanks, and best regards,

Kevin
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