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<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Dear
everybody and especially Mr. Al-Zawahra,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It is
difficult to think that pieces of bone (after all, not so hard material) were
used in a mosaic floor. Nor have I heard of such use in our region (by the way,
for the Europeans Byzantine in the Levant means 4th-7th
cent.).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jidging by parallels from Roman-Byzantine Ceasarea Maritima and
other sites in neighboring Israel, I would suggest these small round pieces
were intended to be <U>inlays</U> in wooden furniture, caskets etc.,
although beads cannot be ruled out either (I agree that they are rather too
small to be tockens or gaming pieces). In Caesarea were found flat bones from
which such disks have been drilled off, with diameter of 7 and 10 mm.
See:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ayalon, E. 2005. <EM>The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory Artifacts from
Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1st-13th Centuries CE </EM>(BAR IS 1457). Oxford,
115-116 Nos. 515-516, Fig. 54:515-516.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
similar ivory object 12 mm in diameter was also found. See op. cit., p. 123 No.
554, Fig. 58:554.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Similar disks, usually made of shell, were also used in 19th-20th century
inlayed pieces of "Damascene" character in the Levant (see op. cit., Pl. 9
bottom).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Etan
Ayalon</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Eretz
Israel Museum</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156290313-08122008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Tel
Aviv, Israel</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu
[mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>h13017cho@helka.iif.hu<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 05, 2008 1:37
AM<BR><B>To:</B> bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bonetools] (Fwd)
[ZOOARCH] Use animal bones in mosaic works<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear
colleagues,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> This is a posting from the Zooarch
mialing list - I would be curious to hear from other people who have seen
mosaic floors from Late Antique or Byzantine contexts. I think these objects
sound too small to be gaming piece or tokens. Please respond back to the list so
we can all see your ideas and I will forward the mail to Mohannad as
well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Best,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Alice</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><B>Dear
all, Hi!<BR>I am working on a worked animal bone assemblage from a
Byzantine church context. Round bone objects could be reconstructed from the
bone refuse, with diameters and heights of ca 0.5-1
cm.<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><B>i am wondering please about the possibility of their
(round bone objects)use as </B><B><U>mosaic building
materials.<BR></U></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><B>i'll be most grateful to any note regarding to this
subject.<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><B>With my warmest regards and thanks in
advance.<BR><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>Mohammad Al-Zawahra<BR>Director of Organic
dep.<BR>Ministry of tourism &
Antiquities<BR>Bethlehem<BR>Palestine</B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#008000><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><U>mohammadalzawahra@HOTMAIL.COM<BR></U><B>
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