Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Ivory handle knife for comment. Arabic translation?

Tim Simmons · 23rd September 2006, 04:14 PM

It looks a solid piece, 3/4 inch rather thick for most bone from the animals of the area. The few brown dot are hard to say with certainty blood vessel. It also looks quite fine. It could be from a toothed whale? from the Mediterranean/Black Sea? It does not have the soft look of well handled ivory?

23rd September 2006, 04:14 PM	#23
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,736	It looks a solid piece, 3/4 inch rather thick for most bone from the animals of the area. The few brown dot are hard to say with certainty blood vessel. It also looks quite fine. It could be from a toothed whale? from the Mediterranean/Black Sea? It does not have the soft look of well handled ivory?