[Bonetools] hippo ivory

[S O'Connor]

Dear François,

Thanks you for these images.  Yes definitely hippo incisor.  The banding
towards the centre of the tusk is quite distinctive.

All the best,

Sonia

Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of
York
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES,  
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

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Subject: [Bonetools] hippo ivory


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

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François POPLIN

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pratiques et environnements

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