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Could you provide views of the top and bottom, with fresh brakes ?
It's to try to solve the question of (décayed) ivory (?)<br>
The front view let me remember of ivories from cf. 8th century, but
not AD, rather before Christ. I prefer to ask mly colleague A.
Caubet before really answering.<br>
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Le 28/05/2012 14:13, Ariel Shatil a écrit :
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<div dir="ltr">Hi bonetools list - friends and colleagues!<br>
I know this one is a shot in the dark, but I would like to hear
any ideas and suggestions about these two pieces.<br>
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First one is a flat object (a little less than 3mm thick), with
its entire surface damaged by patina (like 99% of the bone
objects from the same site) so I cant tell the degree of
polishing it had (if any). The black pen-drawing in the 2ed
picture is of course just a suggestion not based on any
parallel. The object was found more than 40 years ago at
Herodium and it can be dated to anytime between the end of the
1st cent BC to the 5th cent AD <br>
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The 2ed object is more interesting (to me anyway). It was found
in Jerusalem, in a trash pit with ceramics of the 8th cent AD.
In the same pit other bone objects were found including a few
Islamic dolls (or their jointed limbs) a few pins/rods and art
objects, all of them crumbling with bad preservation of the bone
matrix. It almost looks like a schematic sitting figure. The
"collar" is shaped by tiny tiny beads and it seems the top of
the "head" had the same design but with bigger beads. Its hard
to see in the picture, but the protruding "feet" had a hole
drilled from right (broken part) to left - but it did not pierce
through to the other side - which suggests this object pictures
should maybe be looked at upside-down.<br>
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Thank you for any insight or comment<br>
Ariel<br>
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