engraved antler/bone/ivory; portable art

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Object Type: engraved antler/bone/ivory; portable art
Museum number: Palart.431
Description: Fragment of decorated large bone broken or split and shaped to a round-sectioned point at one end. Obverse, reverse, and intervening side surface are each decorated with a zone of diagonal parallel lines, cut to varying depths, with a few shallow-cut transverse incisions also. The object has been thinned below the articular extremity.
Cultures/periods: Magdalenian
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Henry Christy; Excavated by: Edouard Lartet
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Madeleine, La (Tursac)
Materials: bone
Dimensions: Length: 11.80 centimetres; Thickness: 1.60 centimetres; Width: 2 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Sieveking 1987 / A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum (431)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition notes: Exacavated by both Christy and Lartet in 1863.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Palart.431

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