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About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Fragment Comb Engraved
Period: Early Islamic
Material: Bone
Site: Ramla, esh-Sheikh Rihan
Wide: 4.2 cm
Description: A bi-directional comb made of bone, with one side having thick teeth and the other side with thin dense teeth. The intermediate part is trapeziod in shape with the thin teeth along its polygonal sides. The middle solid part is decorated with two rows of large patterns of circles with central dots. The upper line in proximity to the thin teeth, is decorated with one such pattern and the lower line bears three such circles. Typologically this type of comb is known since the Early Roman period, however its decoration can point to the Early Islamic period or even the Fatimid period during the 11th century when minor arts, such as wood, ivory and metal carried this type of circle -in circle decoration.
Bibliography:
Vassilios Tzaferis and Michal Peleg 1989. Small Finds. In: Tzaferis, V. Excavations at Capernaum Vol.I 1978-1982. Indiana, 131-138, Fig. 72: 56.
Eitan Ayalon and Chagit Sorek 1999. Bare Bones. Ancient Artifacts from Animal Bones. Tel-Aviv, 40, Figs. 47-48.

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Fragment Comb Engraved  
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