[Bonetools] Another bone piece

[poplin at mnhn.fr]

Dear Ariel Shatil,

1 : whatever it has been, it has been cut out of a bovine tibia, as  
the long oblique foramen nutricium of the posterior face (poplitean  
region) shows. Find a proximal end of that/such a bone, and match the  
piece on it. You will see then if your hypothesis of the closed circle  
is consistant (I am not that sure). This sort of swallow tail in an  
inlay, a part of a "marqueterie" work.

2 : i'll come back...

Your's

Ariel Shatil <ariel.shatil at mail.huji.ac.il> a écrit :

> 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
>