[Bonetools] Another bone piece

[François Poplin]

Second

Could you provide views of the top and bottom, with fresh brakes ? It's 
to try to solve the question of (décayed) ivory (?)
The front view let me remember of ivories from cf. 8th century, but not 
AD, rather before Christ. I prefer to ask mly colleague A. Caubet before 
really answering.

Le 28/05/2012 14:13, Ariel Shatil 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
>
>
>
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