[Bonetools] Strange bone artifact from Syria

[Lorant Vass]

Dear Jean-Marc and Sonia,

Thank you very much.
That was a great surprise for me.
Is there any particular historical period or population, group which produced artifacts from whale bone? Sorry for this amateur question, but I am studying Roman bone objects, and I have never met a whale bone artifact before. 😀

Thank you!

All the best, L.V.
On 2 Dec 2019, 13:45 +0100, Sonia O'Connor <S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk>, wrote:
> it is cetacean jaw bone.  probably on of the larger baleen bearing whales.
>
> Sonia
>
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR
> Honorary Visiting Researcher
> Department of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences
> University of Bradford
>
>
> From: Bonetools <bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu> on behalf of Lóránt Vass <v_lorant at yahoo.com>
> Sent: 01 December 2019 23:01
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> Subject: [Bonetools] Strange bone artifact from Syria
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> Dear members,
>
> I got some photos with a very strange bone object from Syria. One of my Syrian students sent me these pictures. According to her, the sculpture belongs to a friend who does not know anything about the place it has been found. Actually, there is no information  about the find context or chronology at all.
> It is not even sure it is an ancient artifact, however, the features of the sculpted portrait seems of ancient Greek-Roman style. Have anyone seen anything similar to this? Does anyone know the function and the raw material of this object?
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> All the best,
> Lóránt Vass
>
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