[Bonetools] objects where hare and dog bones are combined

Kyra Lyublyanovics grane.lavrans at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 14:05:20 CEST 2014


Dear Alice,

as I remember there were necklaces in the graves at Perkáta with bothe hare
and fox astragali. However, it's medieval. Are you still interested?

cheers,
K.

On 8 September 2014 12:25, Alice Choyke <choyke at ceu.hu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>  I am collecting instances where dog and hare bone appear together on the
> same object, especially from the Late Iron Age on. Images with descriptions
> would be appreciated. Each of these species separately have their special
> significance in Greek,Roman and medieval belief systems. The combination is
> associated with the hunt as a complex metaphor but I want to know how this
> idea might have been materialized in amulet form in earlier periods or in
> popular belief systems.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alice
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Kyra Lyublyanovics
zooarchaeologist
Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies
1051 Budapest
Nádor u. 9
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