<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Alas, could not open it.<div><br><div><div>On 10 Nov 2010, at 15:28, Leigh Allen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Colleagues, <br><br>I attach a photograph of a rather beautiful bone object recovered from one of our excavations at Didcot, Oxfordshire, if anyone can tell me what it may have been used for I would be most grateful, it came from a Late Roman context. The closest parallel I have found so far are Prehistoric tools for decorating pots although these tend to have teeth at the splayed end and a perforation through the centre. <br><br>Many thanks<br><br>Leigh Allen <br><br><br><br><br>------<br>Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit <a href="http://iso26300.info">http://iso26300.info</a> for more information.<br><span><DIGWP10_sf2000 bone implement.bmp></span>_______________________________________________<br>Bonetools mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a><br>https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Salima Ikram</div><div>Professor of Egyptology</div><div>American University in Cairo</div><div>P. O. Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5</div><div>New Cairo 11825, EGYPT</div><div><a href="mailto:salimaikram@gmail.com">salimaikram@gmail.com</a></div><div>Fax: 20227957565</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>