Acquisition number: 1975.06
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A flat triangular fragment of bone inlay decorated on one face with incised concentric circles, each with a maximum diameter of 0.9cm.
Title: Fragment of Bone Inlay - 1975.06
Acquisition number: 1975.06
Culture or period: Late Bronze Age.
Date: 1400 - 1200 BC.
Material: Bone
Object type: Bone Inlay
Dimensions: 26mm (l) × 19mm (w)
Origin region or location: Jordan
Origin city: Amman.
Display case or on loan: 1
Keywords: Late Bronze Age Temple at Amman, Bone Inlay, Fragment
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U., Canberra, 1981, 12-13; E. Rodziewicz, Bone and Ivory Carvings from Alexandria. French Excavations 1992-2004 (Études alexandrines 12, Cairo 2007) 105 under no. 83, pl. 27, 83 and pl. 104, 1.
1975.06
Fragment of Bone Inlay
From Amman A.vi.2 (cat.no. 197). Max. dimension 2.5cm.
A flat triangular fragment of bone inlay decorated on one face with incised concentric circles, each with a maximum diameter of 0.9cm.
Compare 1975.07. For similarly decorated examples, see W.M.F. Petrie, Ancient Gaza (London 1931-4) III, pl. 29; O. Tufnell et al., Lachish II, pl. 21, 37; Lachish IV pl.28, 2 and 17. Rodziewicz (below) compares with ours a coincidentally similar piece from Late Roman Alexandria. Compare the body of material in her Ivory and Bone Sculpture in Ancient turAlexandria (Antiquités alexandrines, 2, Paris 2016)
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U., Canberra, 1981, 12-13; E. Rodziewicz, Bone and Ivory Carvings from Alexandria. French Excavations 1992-2004 (Études alexandrines 12, Cairo 2007) 105 under no. 83, pl. 27, 83 and pl. 104, 1.