[Bonetools] Roman lion/tiger head knife handle

[ERNESTINE S ELSTER]

Dear Idoia Grau, 


Although not of bone, this stone axe head (  mace ? )  is considerably earlier but it seems to me the use of an animal is  interestingly comparable. Here is what I recently wrote about it and if you need the entire chapter, let me know. 

"A polished stone shaft-hole axe, with a carefully sculpted animal head was excavated from an Early Bronze Age ‘Long House’ at the site of Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeast Greece. Registered as ‘Small Find 2409’ it has been published as a ‘scepter’. Comparanda include carved stone animal headed scepters dated to the late Eneolithic from sites/cultures northeast and east of Sitagroi and linked to ocher grave burials."   

Good luck,

ESE

2019                  <>The Scepter from Sitagroi and Early Bronze Age  Symbols of Power, in,  Between Syria and the Highlands, Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, eds. <>
				Valentini S. and G. Guarducci , pp.161-167.  <>CAMNES, Milan;  <>Roma: Arbor Sapientiae.  <>



ERNESTINE S. ELSTER, Ph.D.
Associate Researcher
Director, Mediterranean Laboratory 
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 
University of California Los Angeles 
A 331 Fowler Museum
308 Ch. Young Drive N; Box 951510
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 eelster at ucla.edu
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