[Bonetools] Fw: London Adapted Object

[Florencia Borella]

Thank you Alice!
Fl.


> 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:
>
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>> 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 ?
>>
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>>
>>
>> Ian Riddler
>>
>>
>>
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