<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Ariel,</div><div> </div><div>those objects belong to belt buckles; the buckles themselves are more or less D-shaped and those objects were fixed through its hole by means of a small rod in bronze or iron. I have no idea, what the English term might be - maybe Alice can help us with it. I had some of those among my early Roman material from Magdalensberg/Austria; normally belt buckles were made from bronze or iron, like our modern examples, but there are quite a lot also in bone or antler. Sometimes they are identifies as amulets - which they were definitely not.</div>
<div> </div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Kordula Gostencnik</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-13 11:37 GMT+02:00 Ariel Shatil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ariel.shatil@mail.huji.ac.il" target="_blank">ariel.shatil@mail.huji.ac.il</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear list,<br></div>Has anyone came across these or similar objects?<br></div>Their chronological context is not clear, as they came from a mixed dump - probably medieval or even as modern as 19th century, but could be earlier too.<br>
<br></div>Apologies for the bad quality of the pictures....<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br>Ariel Shatil<br>Institute of Archaeology<br>The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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