<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Etan,<br></div>In an old box of bone objects from the 1976 season of excavation in Herodion, I came across a toothbrush very similar to yours, with only remains of hair inside the small holes. It had a basket and locus number, absolute height and a date of finding. I wasn't sure it was even bone so I took it to the lab here, and indeed it was plastic... probably used by the excavators to clean pottery and somehow lost and found again... (-:<br>
<br></div><div>In Ir David we found (a couple of months ago) what I think is a Nargila mouth piece. Its undecorated and very simple. It was found in 18th-19th century context with lots of German, French and British porcelain fragments, and also a few ceramic Nargila heads.<br>
</div><div>I'll send you a picture as soon as I'll have it within my grasp again.<br><br><br></div><div>Ariel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Etan Ayalon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:etana@eretzmuseum.org.il" target="_blank">etana@eretzmuseum.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks, Dorothée, this information fits what we know from a few other parallels.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Concerning the toothbrush, there are several parallels in Douai (France), found in modern contexts (18th-20th centuries), and specially one really similar to the one of Wadi al-Shei.
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I send you the photograph (Douai, Ruelle de l'Evêque). I may give you more informations if you want.<br>
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Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux</div></div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Attached are photographs of two bone (?) objects found by the Carmelites in the 1980' at the site of Wadi al-Sheih (Haifa, Israel). Dr. Edna Stern of the Israel Antiquities Authority
is preparing the publication. Most of the finds at the site are from the Crusader and Mamluk periods (12<sup>th</sup>-16<sup>th</sup> cen.), but these two seem to be more modern. One is a cigarette holder or a
<i>nargillah</i> mouthpiece and the other, of course, a toothbrush. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Any dating, parallels etc. would be welcomed. The photos are for information only, until they are published.<u></u><u></u></p>
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