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[Ariel Shatil]

I can not think of anything exactly similar from the Eastern Empire or
Levant.
I might hazard a guess of Egyptian iconography - the figure might be a
representation of Bes. The shape of the head and the expression on the face
seems to fit, and so is the head cover that looks like a crown of feathers.
Yet the general posture of the body does not, and I cant figure out from the
picture where the hands rest. The birds also does not look exactly like the
Egyptian hawks and falcons of the period (They usually have the tail and tip
of the wings touching the ground). The pointy shoes also puzzle me...

As far fetched as it might sound, I would maybe suggest looking further
east, to Persian iconography.
Did you have a look at the catalogue of Ivory objects in the British Museum?

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu> wrote:

> Dear Mark,
>     It would be nice to figure out the iconography wouldn't it? The whole
> thing as a faintly Eastern Empire feel - what does Etan think?
>
> Alice
>
>   On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mark Maltby <mmaltby at bournemouth.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>>    Hi Colleagues,
>>
>> The attached images are of an unusual highly decorated bone handle
>> recently excavated from a Romano-British rural settlement in Dorset
>> (southern England). Does anyone have any knowledge about similar finds
>> elsewhere in the Roman Empire?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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Ariel Shatil
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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