[Bonetools] Bone find from Ephesos

[איתן איילון]

Shalom Ariel from Tel Aviv…
The photo Elise sent clearly shows that her object has a plug-lid like Caesarea's No. 301, while the type you describe has a flat lid that was glued in place. But the general similarity is clear.
Etan

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Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Bone find from Ephesos

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<mailto: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
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