[Bonetools] Fwd: worked bone handle

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Francois,
    Congratulations on your memory! I will try and search the archives.
Thanks for the heads up!

Best,
Alice

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

> Dear Alice,
>
> I have seen such a handle in our list, maybe 2 or 3 years ago. I gave the
> dermination and many details, and, I must say, no news afterwards...
>
> Your's.
>
>
> Alice Choyke a écrit :
>
>> 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
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Sarah Whitcher Kansa* <skansa at alexandriaarchive.org <mailto:
>> skansa at alexandriaarchive.org>>
>> Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM
>> Subject: worked bone handle
>> To: Alice Choyke <choyke at ceu.hu <mailto: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 <mailto:skansa at alexandriaarchive.org>
>>
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