[Bonetools] Bone toothbrushes

[Font Ágnes]

Dear  all,

I would like to share with you some similar objects from Budapest (from
early new age context).

Best,
Ágnes

Ariel Shatil <ariel.shatil at mail.huji.ac.il> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov.
3., Szo 10:19):

> Hi everyone, I'm trying again, since Christian tells me the photos didn't
> pass through on the last e-mail. I hope this time it works. If it doesn't
> work, I apologize for the spam and I sent the images to Christian's
> personal e-mail too, so he can upload them to the website.
>
> The brushes in the pictures (bonetool of the month
> <https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/>) were found in the
> Temple Mount sifting project. Its a project were tourists, students etc.
> sift earth that was illegally excavated out from the mountain when
> renovations were made in the lower levels of the mosque there.  Naturally,
> being out of their archaeological context, these brushes and the other
> finds from the sifting project have very little chronological significance.
>
> In the past few years I did get to see a few such brushes come out from
> excavations of 19th-early 20th century contexts. A few have inscriptions on
> the handle: "EXTRA FINE ARTS" or "EXTRA FINE ARTS. PARIS", and I believe
> they were first imported here by Europeans (American/German colonies,
> British soldiers, and of course Jews who came to settle).
> [image: B-347201-11071807472.jpg]
>
> In the email some years ago, I also mentioned that some of them have
> incised grooves on the back and some of them do not. I learned that these
> grooves relate to the method in which the tufts were inserted and attached
> to the stock. The brushes with incised grooves had a copper wire drawn
> through the grooves to hold the tufts in place. I found this great sketch
> on google:
> [image: image.png]
> The incisions were then filled with something like enamel or cement or
> some other pasty material to hide the copper wire and the groove. In some
> brushes the filling paste is exactly the same color as the bone and you
> can't really know its there. In others the wire and the filling paste is
> easier to see.
> [image: Wire-drawn-bristle-attachment.jpg]
> Then there are these brushes with no grooves. These have a similar system
> to attach the tufts, but with very delicate tunnels instead of grooves. The
> tunnels are then plugged to hide them and the wires inside; and honestly,
> you can't see them unless you know where to look!
> [image: image(1).png]
> [image: Treppaned-wire-system.jpg]
>
> There is a book by Barbara Mattick which I haven't read (I couldn't find a
> copy in Israel), but as its title goes I'm sure it will be a treasure to
> anyone who wants to learn bone toothbrushes:  Mattick B. 2009. *A Guide
> to Bone Toothbrushes of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries*.
> And there is also this nice exhibition at the virtual dentistry museum: Different
> Strokes for Different Folks: A History of the Toothbrush
> <http://www.virtualdentalmuseum.org/exhibits/different-strokes-different-folks-history-toothbrush/>
>
> Have a good one,
> Ariel
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ariel Shatil
> Institute of Archaeology
> The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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