EA-NOKUBI-HERA-001 - archaeological find
Nokubi site trapezoid pendant-like object
Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan; Nokubi site - East Asia
Function not recorded Candidate only
垂飾品 Japanese
Source term: 垂飾品; possible 箆状垂飾 comparator; trapezoid pendant-like object
On the Gotō Islands off Kyūshū, the Nokubi site yielded a thin, vertically long trapezoid of hard sandstone — a stone that does not occur on the islands and had to arrive by boat. The archaeologist who published it compared it, cautiously and explicitly without committing, to the hera-shaped pendant class; the available illustration is a tight crop in which even the perforation cannot be confirmed, and the report flags disturbance in the find layer. The atlas holds it at watch level as an island outlier: an imported worked slab at the far southwestern edge of the distribution, more interesting for where it is than for what can currently be said about it.
- Object
- 垂飾品; possible 箆状垂飾 comparator; trapezoid pendant-like object. Specimens/count: one Figure 3 item 25. Material: hard sandstone; non-local to Goto Islands. Dimensions: unverified. Perforation: perforation status unclear from current crop/report summary. Context: Nokubi site H30 district layer II; source caveats chronology/layer disturbance.
- Function
- A non-local hard-sandstone slab compared — hesitantly — to the hera-pendant class by its publisher; a southwestern range marker kept at watch level.
- Map confidence
- low - Approximate locality or municipality/site-cluster anchor from the local dossier; refine before public release.
- Source location
- Tsukahara 2001 Fig. 3 item 25