<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Marloes, <br></span></div><div><br></div><div>At the first sight the objects seem to be coming from a funerary bed, <span style="font-style: italic;">kline</span>, and they are called in the literature as <span style="font-style: italic;">kline</span> inlays. Usually the legs of the beds are decorated with bone, and especially with ivory inlays. The different form of your objects reflect the form of the different part of the leg they were attached to. This type of burial and tradition of decorating funerary beds with bone and ivory inlays has its origin in middle Italy, and it it generally spread in the neighbouring provinces of Italy (Noricum, southern Gallia, Germania Superior) between B.C. 1st and A.D. 1st centuries. I scanned you an image with the general structure of a funerary bed leg and the parts which
were decorated with bone inlays. Hope you will find it useful until I am looking for refrences for you.</div><div>Good work!</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Lorant<br></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen <marloesrijkelijkhuizen@hotmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 7, 2011 5:00 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bonetools] objects roman cremation graves<br></font><br><div id="yiv239066229">
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Any ideas or parallells?<br>
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Best, Marloes<br> </div>
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