[Bonetools] Roman cremation burial

[Selena Vitezović]

Dear Lorant,
For some strange reason, your mail was in spam folder. But I have no idea
what should you do about it.
best, Selena

On 7 June 2016 at 10:14, Lóránt Vass <v_lorant at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Marloes,
>
> I tried to send this mail several times on the mailing list but without
> any success so far. Hopefully, this will find its destination. :)
>
> Regarding the first item, I can only confirm the  infos provided by
> Stephen Greep. It is very hard to determine the function of the long
> tubular artifact with disc and terminal. As Stephen Greep has already
> mentioned, it is believed to be a hinge of a furniture article. However,
> its large size and the lack of attaching holes for wooden shavings that
> would assure the opening/closing mechanism shed doubt in this concern. On
> the other hand, this long and narrow cilyndrical form is not characteristic
> for Roman pyxis/containers, although it could have been easily used as a
> cosmetic container. The examples given by Alice Choyke from Aquincum looks
> similar, but they are smaller and much wider.
> Does the find context indicate any furniture element (casket, kline etc.)
> that has been also cremated? The small bone pegs, although I did not find
> analogies for them in bone, look similar to the bronze casket
> mounts/ornamental pegs that usually cover the outer surface of a wooden
> casket.
> Are these finds from an early cremation grave (1st-2nd c. AD)?
>
> Lóránt
>
>
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Selena Vitezović
Arheološki institut
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