[Bonetools] bone objects

[Ariel Shatil]

Dear Etan,
In an old box of bone objects from the 1976 season of excavation in
Herodion, I came across a toothbrush very similar to yours, with only
remains of hair inside the small holes. It had a basket and locus number,
absolute height and a date of finding. I wasn't sure it was even bone so I
took it to the lab here, and indeed it was plastic... probably used by the
excavators to clean pottery and somehow lost and found again... (-:

In Ir David we found (a couple of months ago) what I think is a Nargila
mouth piece. Its undecorated and very simple. It was found in 18th-19th
century context with lots of German, French and British porcelain
fragments, and also a few ceramic Nargila heads.
I'll send you a picture as soon as I'll have it within my grasp again.


Ariel


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Etan Ayalon <etana at eretzmuseum.org.il>wrote:

>  Thanks, Dorothée, this information fits what we know from a few other
> parallels.****
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> Etan****
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> *From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:
> bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] * On Behalf Of *Doroth?e
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> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] bone objects****
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> Dear Etan,
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> Concerning the toothbrush, there are several parallels in Douai (France),
> found in modern contexts (18th-20th centuries), and specially one really
> similar to the one of Wadi al-Shei.
> I send you the photograph (Douai, Ruelle de l'Evêque). I may give you more
> informations if you want.
> All the best,
> Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux
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> Dear colleagues,****
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> Attached are photographs of two bone (?) objects found by the Carmelites
> in the 1980' at the site of  Wadi al-Sheih (Haifa, Israel). Dr. Edna Stern
> of the Israel Antiquities Authority is preparing the publication. Most of
> the finds at the site are from the Crusader and Mamluk periods (12th-16thcen.), but these two seem to be more modern. One is a cigarette holder or a
> *nargillah* mouthpiece and the other, of course, a toothbrush.  ****
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> Any dating, parallels etc. would be welcomed. The photos are for
> information only, until they are published.****
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Ariel Shatil
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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