[Bonetools] Brushes

[Ariel Shatil]

Dear list,
A few weeks or months ago Etan Ayalon asked for parallels to a fragment of
a tooth brush from Wadi al-Sheih (Haifa, Israel). Here are a few fragments
of tooth brushes from Jerusalem probably dating to the late Ottoman period
or British Mandate. They are only slightly different from Etan's brushes
(there are no line incisions on the back). Some of them have holes piercing
through the brush, so maybe they were attached to a frame from a different
material?
Another interesting brush is a large rectangular one with many holes, all
of them pierce through the object, so it must have had a frame of wood,
horn or other material or it was double sided. The rims around the
circumference are painted brown-red, and on the sides there are the remains
of a hard flaky substance (maybe glue). The holes are arranged in a nice
pattern - two high rimed holes surrounded by 8 regular holes.The opposite
surface is completely flat without the alternating high rimed holes
(therefore I think it was covered).

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Ariel Shatil
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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