[Bonetools] Bone find from Ephesos

[Ariel Shatil]

Dear Elise and  mailing list colleagues,
A few similar items, nicely lathe-turned from large metapod shafts were
also found in Jerusalem in 8-9th centuries AD context (Early Islamic). They
all have an inside ridge on top to support the lid.They are closer in
appearance to item 303 in the plate Etan attached to his mail, but they
vary greatly in size: the largest one is almost 10cm high, while the
smallest is less than 4cm high. I think this may support Etan's suggestion
as board game pieces. The Ephesus item is truly beautiful! I wonder if it
has a flat lid, or a plug-lid like item 301 in Etan's publication.

Ariel


On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 7:58 AM, איתן איילון <etana at eretzmuseum.org.il>
wrote:

> 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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Ariel Shatil
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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