[Bonetools] Mammoth tusk as raw material in Roman times?

[S O'Connor]

Thanks for this Ian. I will be very interested to know on what the identification as mammoth is based for this object too. I have been trying to get hold of all Bannerjee's papers on ivory identification as part of my project and this is one I still need.

If anyone has a pdf/copy of either of these papers they could send to me I would be most grateful.

Hampel, A. and Bannerjee, A., 1995
Identifizierung und Differenzierung von Elfenbein am Bespiel des merowingerzeitlichen Grabfundes aus dem Frankfurter Dom, Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 25, 143-7 

Drauschke, J. and A. Banerjee (2007). "Zur Identifikation, Herkunft und Verarbeitung von Elfenbein in der Merowingerzeit." Archäologische Korrespondenz 37: 109-128.

All the best,

Sonia

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Subject: [Bonetools] Mammoth tusk as raw material in Roman times?

This would need to be checked but I think I am right in believing that a merovingian object from Frankfurt Dom was also thought to be mammoth ivory: 

Hampel, A. and Bannerjee, A., 1995
Identifizierung und Differenzierung von Elfenbein am Bespiel des merowingerzeitlichen Grabfundes 

aus dem Frankfurter Dom, Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 25, 143-7



>From a secure context as well I think, but is it actually mammoth ?



Ian Riddler


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