Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion! Best Suzanne On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Suzanne Pilaar Birch < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A mystery bone for your Friday: a colleague who works on the Brown Abydos > project described what I thought sounded like a reptile cranial fragment, > so I told him to send a few pictures, which I have posted on zoobook: > http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/abydos. > > He said it is from a sand deposit sealed by a domestic occupation surface, > dated to 2nd to early 1st century BCE. Also there seems to be a bit of > faience sticking to it and they think it may have once been part of a > composite object. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Best, > > Suzanne > > -- > Dr. Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch > > Postdoctoral Fellow > Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World > Brown University > 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912 USA > -- Dr. Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch Postdoctoral Fellow Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World Brown University 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912 USA