[Bonetools] Bone find from Ephesos

Sun Sep 6 06:58:34 CEST 2015

Dear Elise,
This nice object could be a gaming piece, i.e., a pawn in chess, or a damka piece. Compare to the objects in the attached plate, of the Late Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (4th-8th centuries and maybe later) found in Caesarea Maritima, Israel. See especially No. 301 (6th-7th cent.) made of cattle metatarsus, with the same type of lid. See:
Ayalon, E. 2005. The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory Artifacts from Caesarea Maritima, Israel 1st-13th Centuries CE (BAR IS 1457). Oxford.

Etan ayalon
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