[Bonetools] Fw: London Adapted Object

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Ian,
    What a marvellous piece. These late medieval -early modern ivory combs
were precious and therefore often curated in various ways. A colleague and
I wrote an article on what happens to these combs once they fell into
Ottoman hands (or beards) in 16th c. Hungary. I attach it in case anyone
else is interested. Many thanks for showing this piece to us!

Alice

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM, trzaska at lineone.net
<trzaska at lineone.net>wrote:

>
>
>
>
> Marit Gaimster has passed on to me details of this ivory comb from a
> recent excavation in
> London.
> It was found in a context with medieval material but is likely to be a
> little later in
> date. At
>
> first sight it is an ordinary comb, for which the teeth are now missing.
> However, a series of
>
> evenly–spaced holes have been drilled into it and the end has been
> modified. Is this a case of a
>
> comb being adapted for a secondary use, possibly as a winder for thread ?
> Or did it have some
> other
>
> (secondary) function ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ian Riddler
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bonetools mailing list
> Bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://listserv.niif.hu/pipermail/bonetools/attachments/20120914/1dfa1350/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: choyke_kovats 2010 Vienna.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 3383743 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://listserv.niif.hu/pipermail/bonetools/attachments/20120914/1dfa1350/attachment-0001.pdf>