[Bonetools] hippo ivory

[François Poplin]

Dear all,

this is a page of history of study on ivories, the present aim being : 
is it possible to distinguish hippo ivory on photographs ?

The answer is yes, sometimes yes.

The first joined file shows p. 51 of "Naissance de l'Art grec", Demargne 
(1974)
The seal fig. 48 (in the middle, on the left), from Platanos, ca. 
2200-2000 BC, is 19 mm in diameter, 5 cm in the book, therefore enlarged 
x 2,5 on the paper. It shows the feature of hippo, and I told it in 
march 1979 in a conference in Lyon, and it has been printed in 1980 ; 
this is the first identification of hippo in the mino-mycenian, and in 
greek, ivories.

The 2nd file gives a detail of the seal itself, and you can compare this 
scanning of the book with the slide I took in 1991 and let scannerize 
yesterday.(3rd file).

File 4 is a slide I took in Cesarea, where I determined the ivories, 
among which that one which is hippo.

File 5 shows a piece of Arslan Tepe. I have seen in a meeting, and from 
my seat, I did not see it very well, but it seemed to me to be hippo and 
I advised to look further in that direction. Whith the book under eye, 
it's clearly hippo.

You can play with these image, making zooms and enlarge as you want.

Your's

-- 
François POPLIN

Directeur honoraire de l’UMR 7209 Archéozoologie, Archébotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements

Responsable du Séminaire d'Anthropozoologie

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
CP 56
Ancien Laboratoire d’Anatomie comparée
55, rue de Buffon
75005 Paris
01 40 79 33 11
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