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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Marta Moreno Garcia,<br>
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I come back a month ago to your mail with comb. When one makes
such a comb, he can choose either not to attain the bar with the
saw or to go further and attack it - your comb is a marvelous
example of the second way ; and a very good thing to do would be a
map all over Eurasia showing the chorology of that dualistic
ornamental choice.<br>
I paid some attention to that when Jean-François Goret was a
student ; he had a little stick with some incipient marks of (worn
of) that kind, and the discussion at that time was more of less
close to the [french : chevalets de cordophone].<br>
<br>
I show you the dromedary metapodial which is the very first
support for toothing sickles I have seen, and about which I have
been misleaded by a faulse testimony/witness : I was told that
people in Sahara picked the bone and then poured sand on the
surface in order to sharpen the sickles (ie : not toothed
sickles).<br>
Years after, I have seen in the catalogue of an exhibit of
mediaeval archaeology in the South of France, that there where
toothed sickles in the XIII. century. It was a flash of lightning
in my mind, the traces on bone being as marks of teeth, but I did
not see the way they where done - they where traces of tool
inbetween the teth, as on these combs. I felt that I was very
close to the solution, and that I was going to understand one day.
We wrote in Spain to ask, mainly in the northern part, and get no
answer.<br>
The more bitter bite for me is that I was deprived of searching.
And this is the reason why I investigated the drilled metapodials
for which you have an experimental example close to the dromedary
bone : for the pleasure of searching without help of any example.
As I explained to your student, they are [couvre forets], the worn
of the (originaly circular drilled) holes being the result of
[entraînement circulaire tangentiel à sens unique]<br>
<br>
Je vous écris cela en me battant avec ma faiblesse dans une langue
étrangère. Mais l'essentiel est dit, et je tenais beaucoup à ce
que vous le sachiez.<br>
<br>
PS : Cette photographie témoigne aussi d'une recherche, très
actuelle, sur les trous nourriciers, particulièrement des
métapodes de bovins. C'est important pour les "ivoires coptes",
dont je regarde en ce moment un collection nombreuses, celle du
sculpteur Auguste Rodin.<br>
<br>
Bien sincèrement.<br>
<br>
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Le 03/05/2016 à 20:06, MARTA MORENO GARCIA a écrit :<br>
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<p>Dear all,<br>
I am currently studying the bone assemblage recovered from the
Duomo of Padova (Italy) dated to the early and high Middle Ages.
An Italian student is working with the worked bone material,
among which there is this comb (see attached photographs) that
comes from the cleaning layer. First of all, I would like to ask
for your expertise in order to identify the material it is made
of and secondly, I would appreciate very much any comments you
would like to make on its typology. If you send some
bibliography we can read, it would be great!<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Marta</p>
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