[Bonetools] help with bone artefact

[cho13017 at iif.hu]

Quoting Marta Moreno <mmoreno at igespar.pt>:

> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> I have not been able to find any parallels, so I would appreciate any help
> or clues about their possible function.
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> 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.
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> Thank you very much for your help!
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> Marta
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> Dra. Marta Moreno García
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> Laboratório de Arqueozoologia
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> IGESPAR
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> Av da Índia 136, Lisboa 1300-300
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> Portugal
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> e-mail: mmoreno at igespar.pt
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> Tel: 00 351 21 361 65 57
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> Fax: 00 351 21 361 65 59
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Dear Marta,
    Once again you are the queen of the simple but totally obscure bone
artifact. I will wandering about museums tday and I will keep my eyes open.

Best,
Alice
















Dear marta - once again you are the queen of the obscure