[Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb

[Renáta Přichystalová]

Dear Steve,

thank you very much for your comment.

I already had a look to the published material from Wolin and Gdańsk. 
There are some combs very similar to our comb from Pohansko.
It is great idea to look for analogies in Wroclaw. This site is rich in 
artefacts from midd-eastern Europe as well as finds from western and 
northern Europe.
This kind of comb is a rarity in our region. Bone/antler combs in our 
region at the turn of 9th/10th century do not find in archaeological 
contexts too often and this one is very extraordinary with its side 
ending in the form of simplified animal protomes.

Thank you all for notes and recommendations.

I will inform you how successful I was.

Best regards

Renáta




Dne 2022-04-18 02:07, Steve Ashby napsal:
> Hi Renáta
> 
> What a lovely comb!
> 
> I’m afraid I’ve not really worked on combs in your part of the
> world very much, where the form is significantly different to what we
> see in Northern Europe and Scandinavia in this period, and I would
> probably just direct you to the classifications you have already
> listed. My knowledge does not really go much further south than
> northern Poland, I’m afraid, and I am not aware of any recently
> published synthesis or parallels from CZ or neighbouring states, but
> others on this list might be.
> 
> Otherwise I think your best bet might simply be a survey of site
> reports from your region, with reference to the Cnotliwy and
> Chmielowska classifications. More combs have been published from
> excavations in Poland in recent years- wolin and truso for
> example-though I don’t think there’s any real update on the
> classifications in these reports. But it would probably be more useful
> to find parallels a bit closer to home - there might well be relevant
> material from Wroclaw for instance, which others on this list might
> know of.
> 
> Best of luck
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 16:34, Renáta Přichystalová
> <svecova at phil.muni.cz> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I would like to ask you for help with my searching of analogy to the
>> 
>> antler comb from site Pohansko near Břeclav (CZ).
>> This is early medieval stronghold (9th - first half of 10th cen.).
>> The
>> comb was found in 3 pieces above the remains of christian church - a
>> 
>> rotunda.
>> There is an article about this rotunda is there: in journal Památky
>> 
>> archeologické from 2014:
>> 
> https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV
>> 
>> According my investigation: the comb we can assign to the group IB,
>> type
>> VII (variety 9a or 9c) or type VIII (variety 4) - classification
>> according to Eugeniusz Cnotliwy 1973: Rzemioslo rogownicze na
>> Pomorzu
>> wcześniośredniowiecznym. This king of a comb is dated in the turn
>> of the
>> 9th and 10th century AD.
>> According to fig. 28 in the monograph of A. Chmielowska (1971) - it
>> could be the comb of group IB, type 9, variety e - dated since 11th
>> to
>> 13th century AD.
>> (titel: Grzebiene starozytne i średniowieczne z ziem polskich).
>> 
>> Please, does anybody know about some similar finding?
>> 
>> I will be thankful for any information.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>> 
>> Renáta P.
>> 
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Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
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