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Dental Fragment - Obodas, Petra
Published Wednesday 17 October 2007, updated Thursday 18 October 2007,
by Carine Tomé
Obodas Chapel (Jabal Numayr, Petra, Jordan). Nabataean rock-cut sancturay. French Archaeological Mission in Petra. Direction of the excavation: Christian Augé (CNRS), Laurent Tholbecq (Laval University).
Here is a tooth fragment along 22 millimeters found in the faunal material of the "Obodas chapel" in Petra. This might suggest a tooth fragment of an elephant, but that determination seems unsatisfactory.
Many thanks to Sheila (and the rest of the mailing-list Zooarch) for helping me resolved so quickly that determination. It’s a fragment of superior pharyngeal from parrotfish (Scarus sp.).
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