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[François Poplin]

I would like to come today to the theme "a piece, two objects".

The piece proposed by Erik Farrell does not fit very well for me with 
what I have to express, mainly because of the wear of the formerly 
broken end ; it puzzles me to much, and even the break it covers is not 
that clear in my mind. I'll take a better example/case.

Some words before : there are cases were the function is not changed, 
where the object is the same. For example, it may occur that a hole 
pierced through the tip of the root (/apex dentis/) of a carnivore 
canine breaks, and that a new/second hole is pierced a little bit 
further, providing an image of "one and a half" pierced pendant. This is 
reparing, there is continuation, the function is the same (fr. "reprise" 
opposite to "remploi", where the function is another one).

A new function is precisely the case in fig. 4 in the paper of Idola 
Grau-Sologestoa (*), to whom I write my remarks and who answers very 
kindly, so as we starded an harmonious fruitfull dialogue in which I 
feel free to express my thoughts, even without linguistic limitation, 
as/because I may write my mother tongue. With help of a dictionary, I 
dare to say that I feel crippled in Shakespeare's language, and feel 
more how much I maim it.

On that bone, the previously unclear wear (on the die, above) becomes a 
marvelous source of light, and the break is evident in its 
causality/etiology : it is the end and conclusion of an in force use, in 
which the main hole grew till the remnant vanishing part of the bone 
wall could not resist any longer. This long and mighty use produced a 
wear done by human hand, and even by both hands of a man ; a wear for 
which it's difficult to find a suitable name, at least in french (**). 
It's a kind of polish. I do not want to enter this terminological 
problem here, I prefer to stress this : they are two things to be 
considered, fr. /poli à la main/ and /poli par la main/, polish done 
with hand (holdind a polisher) and left by the hand (itself). We have to 
consider the later more than nowadays.

Have a look to the beautiful die from Meulan, make zoom on the 6 faces 
and 21 eyes. You will see soon that faces of 3 and 4 are transversal 
(annuli become clear with some magnification), facing extremities 
(distal or proximal, is indistinct), and that their eyes are not 
seriously damaged by the wear/polishing. The 6, on the outer/periostical 
face, and the one, of the inner/medullary face, are deeply damaged. The 
one-eye has lost its circle (it has been re-carved roughly with a pin), 
its central point//fovea/ ("pupil", let us say) remains alone and few, 
as on the 6. The 2 an the 5, on radial sections, have suffer something 
inbetween. You may imagine an ellipsoid of bone hardness, as in wood 
(where it's so difficult to plane on the transverse sections), and we 
must congratulate the dice maker to have carved these eyes which open 
ours on the phenomenon of wear/polishing of the surfaces by hands.

It's now week-end. I leave you with that piece of chess for playing.

Your's sincerely

(*) http://www.aranzadi-zientziak.org/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/2012305319AA.pdf

(**) this is not, despite common/faulse uses, fr. /patine/, engl. 
/patina/, which is an added coloration (cf. verdigris) ; it is rather 
close to italian adjective /frusto/ ; german /Schliff /is the most 
appropriate term that I know.

-- 
François POPLIN

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

Responsable du Séminaire d'Anthropozoologie

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