[Bonetools] Roman Period finds

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear Erika

1. The long fluted piece is indeed an inlay shaped as a Doric column shaft. It was probably part of a larger scene of architectural character, common in Roman-Byzantine art (in bone carving, lead coffins, pottery lamps etc.)as well as on Islamic metal work. I published several bone carvings shaped as columns from Caesarea: Ayalon, E. 2005. The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory Artifacts from Caesarea Maritima, Israel... (BAR IS 1457). Oxford, Fig. 37 (and see discussion and references pp. 88-89, 93). An exact parallel to your piece (but 26 mm long) is Fig. 37:351. Another piece with vertical flutes, 153 mm long (but with a base and capital) is No. 352 there. (Alice and Marie have the book). Another parallel comes from a tomb in Haifa, Israel: Dussaud, R. 1912. Les monuments Palestiniens et Judaiques, Musée du Louvre. Paris.

 

2. The small piece with a hole (which is broken; originally it was cylindrical) is, as Sabine already wrote you, one of several parts of a hinge of a box, small cabin etc. See discussion and references (which include good restorations) in Ayalon 2005:44.

 

Hope that the remote Provincia Palaestina was of little help,

Etan Ayalon    

 

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Subject: [Bonetools] Roman Period finds

 

Dear All,

 

I would like to ask your help with two

semi-cylindrical objects (see the pictures). They were

found in Roman Period features in South Italy. I

thought of inlays, especially with the ribbed Object

1, but can not find any parallels. 

 

All ideas and references are welcome. Thank you in

advance. Have a nice weekend.

 

Erika

 

Dr. Erika Gál

Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1014 Budapest, Uri u. 49.

Hungary

Fax: 36 1 224 6719

E-mail: gal_erika at yahoo.com; gal at archeo.mta.hu

http://www.archeo.mta.hu/munkatars/galerika/index.htm

 

 

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