Dear Colleagues,<br> This is a posting form an ICAZ member outside our list. So, if you write to Sarah directly please CC your ideas to the list as well as this is interesting for many of us.<br><br>Best,<br>Alice<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sarah Whitcher Kansa</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skansa@alexandriaarchive.org">skansa@alexandriaarchive.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM<br>Subject: worked bone handle<br>To: Alice Choyke <<a href="mailto:choyke@ceu.hu">choyke@ceu.hu</a>><br><br><br>Dear Alice,<br>
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I have a piece of worked bone I was hoping somebody might help me with. I recently worked on the faunal assemblage from Petra (mainly Roman and Byzantine contexts). In one of the bags was a lovely piece of worked bone, which appears to have been a knife or comb handle, formed into the shape of a human leg. It has incisions that form a pattern on the "leggings" and it has a carved hole where the knife or comb would have inserted into the "thigh" part of the leg. The heel has a pin running through it, presumably to hold on the toe part of the foot (which is now broken off). Please see the attached image.<br>
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I'm wondering if you can point me to some any volumes or papers that might provide good examples of discussion of comparative material-- Roman/Byzantine worked bone, specifically handles. I'd mainly like to discuss how common this type of work is, in what contexts it occurs (knives, combs, etc), and what form it takes (animal, human, naturalistic).<br>
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Many thanks for any advice!<br>
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Sarah Kansa<br>
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