[Bonetools] Another bone piece

[Ariel Shatil]

Hi bonetools list - friends and colleagues!
I know this one is a shot in the dark, but I would like to hear any ideas
and suggestions about these two pieces.

First one is a flat object (a little less than 3mm thick), with its entire
surface damaged by patina (like 99% of the bone objects from the same site)
so I cant tell the degree of polishing it had (if any). The black
pen-drawing in the 2ed picture is of course just a suggestion not based on
any parallel. The object was found more than 40 years ago at Herodium and
it can be dated to anytime between the end of the 1st cent BC to the 5th
cent AD

The 2ed object is more interesting (to me anyway). It was found in
Jerusalem,  in a trash pit with ceramics of the 8th cent AD. In the same
pit other bone objects were found including a few Islamic dolls (or their
jointed limbs) a few pins/rods and art objects, all of them crumbling with
bad preservation of the bone matrix. It almost looks like a schematic
sitting figure. The "collar" is shaped by tiny tiny beads and it seems the
top of the "head" had the same design but with bigger beads. Its hard to
see in the picture, but the protruding "feet" had a hole drilled from right
(broken part) to left - but it did not pierce through to the other side -
which suggests this object pictures should maybe be looked at upside-down.

Thank you for any insight or comment
Ariel
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