[Bonetools] help with bone artefact

[Christian Küchelmann]

Hi Marta,

my first idea was an armplate of a bowyer to protect your lower arm  
from the bowstring (can't remember the correct term in english). I  
remember that I saw similar ones in the exhibition "Furusuiyya –  
Chevaliers en Pays d'Islam" in the Institute du Monde Arab in Paris  
(http://www.imarabe.org/).

Yours

Christian
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Am 15.04.2009 um 12:47 schrieb Marta Moreno:

> Dear all,
>
>
> Please, find enclosed several pictures of a bone artefact/tool  
> dated to the Islamic period (11th-12th centuries AD) found in  
> recent excavations in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. It is not a  
> single piece. So far I have three more identical specimens  
> recovered from two other Portuguese localities.
>
>
> I have not been able to find any parallels, so I would appreciate  
> any help or clues about their possible function.
>
>
> Three of the four specimens are manufactured on cattle metatarsal,  
> the fourth one was fashioned from cattle radius. They are very  
> similar in size: approx. 14 cm. As you can see they present two  
> small holes on the anterior face of the bone which is highly  
> polished. The back of the bone was roughly cut at both ends to give  
> it a triangular shape. The edges are also smoothed.
>
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> Marta
>
>
>
> Dra. Marta Moreno García
>
> Laboratório de Arqueozoologia
>
> IGESPAR
>
> Av da Índia 136, Lisboa 1300-300
>
> Portugal
>
> e-mail: mmoreno at igespar.pt
>
> Tel: 00 351 21 361 65 57
>
> Fax: 00 351 21 361 65 59
>
>
> <BCP 3.jpg><BCP 1.jpg><BCP 2.jpg>
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