[Bonetools] help with material identification

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Marta,
      This is a beautiful little object. Have you looked at the surface
under magnification? In any case, once it is published could you
archaeologist friend let the WBRG webpage have an image with provenance and
raw material, for the Bone tool of the month rubric? BONE seems more likely
to me for the body despite the elongated shape but the only formal
parallels I have seen are in ivory which this is clearly not.

Best,
Alice

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 15:51 Marta Moreno García <marta.moreno at cchs.csic.es>
wrote:

> Dear all,
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> a medievalist colleague of mine asked me to help her with the
> identification of the material the object below is made of. This is a small
> box dated to the Middle Ages that it is presently housed in the monastery
> of San Isodoro, León, Spain. The measurements are as follow:
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> Base at longest point: 57mm
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> Metal top diameter: 34mm
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> Height (antler only): 44mm
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> By the elongated shape of the top we thought it was made of antler but I
> am not sure. What do you think? Any ideas? Do you know of any parallels?
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> Thanks a lot,
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