[Bonetools] Another bone piece

[Ariel Shatil]

Thank you Francois Poplin. I will make the pictures tomorrow and send them
to you.


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:59 AM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

>  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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Ariel Shatil
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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