Two Bone Artefacts from the Sanctuary of Iupiter Heliopolitanus in Carnuntum (Lower Austria)

Gál, Erika (2013) Two Bone Artefacts from the Sanctuary of Iupiter Heliopolitanus in Carnuntum (Lower Austria). In: The Sound of Bones. Proceedings of the 8th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group in Salzburg 2011. Paris Lodron-Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, pp. 107-115. ISBN 978-3-9502897-5-6 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

In this paper, the author presents the scarce evidence of bone manufacture in the Roman Age Sanctuary of Carnuntum-Mühläcker. A not completely finished pipe with a single hole was made from the humerus of a greylag or domestic goose (Anser anser/A. domesticus). The function of the other artefact is not exactly known. The carved metacarpus III of an equid, most likely a horse (Equus caballus L.), resembles a skate or a polisher. In any case, the slight polish marks with scratches of undefined direction point to a barely used implement. The paper puts these infrequent objects from Austria in a regional and chronological context.

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