[Bonetools] Fwd: worked bone handle

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Colleagues,
    This is a posting form an ICAZ member outside our list. So, if you write
to Sarah directly please CC your ideas to the list as well as this is
interesting for many of us.

Best,
Alice

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From: Sarah Whitcher Kansa <skansa at alexandriaarchive.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Subject: worked bone handle
To: Alice Choyke <choyke at ceu.hu>


Dear Alice,

I have a piece of worked bone I was hoping somebody might help me with. I
recently worked on the faunal assemblage from Petra (mainly Roman and
Byzantine contexts). In one of the bags was a lovely piece of worked bone,
which appears to have been a knife or comb handle, formed into the shape of
a human leg. It has incisions that form a pattern on the "leggings" and it
has a carved hole where the knife or comb would have inserted into the
"thigh" part of the leg. The heel has a pin running through it, presumably
to hold on the toe part of the foot (which is now broken off). Please see
the attached image.

I'm wondering if you can point me to some any volumes or papers that might
provide good examples of discussion of comparative material--
Roman/Byzantine worked bone, specifically handles. I'd mainly like to
discuss how common this type of work is, in what contexts it occurs (knives,
combs, etc), and what form it takes (animal, human, naturalistic).

Many thanks for any advice!

Sarah Kansa
skansa at alexandriaarchive.org

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