[Bonetools] help with material identification

[Steve Ashby]

It looks very like antler to me, based on morphology, though I have never
seen it in person. It’s an object I had always hoped to have ZooMSed.

Incidentally these are the best images of it I have seen.

Steve


On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 15:14, Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Marta
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