{"id":"TRUHELKA1912-001","label":"Mahrevići perforated whetstone","people_or_site":"Mahrevići La Tène tumulus","country_current":"Bosnia and Herzegovina","historic_region":"Mahrevići tumulus, Čajniče district","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Wetzstein","source_term":"Wetzstein / whetstone; bull roarer (Galin)","source_language":"German (Truhelka); English (Galin)","object_description":"A slim, rectangular-in-cross-section blade of reddish sandstone-slate, 10.2 cm long, pointed at the upper end and pierced there by a single suspension hole. It was the only stone object recovered from the tumulus.","function_summary":"Sharpening, per the excavator's original whetstone identification.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"truhelka1912_mahrevici_sandstone_whetstone_bullroarer","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_12_1912_0012-0028.pdf","page_or_plate":"Truhelka 1912, printed p. 17, Fig. 2; Galin 1988, p. 136 (no figure number assigned by Galin)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Čajniče town anchor, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina; the tumulus's own excavation coordinates are not given in Truhelka 1912 beyond the district name, and the modern hamlet of Mahrevići could not be independently located.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The only stone object from a burial tumulus at Mahrevići, in eastern Bosnia's Čajniče district, is a slim reddish slate blade just over ten centimetres long, pointed at one end and pierced there for suspension. Ćiro Truhelka excavated and published it in 1912 as a whetstone, then moved on to the tumulus's glass and enamel beads. Seventy years later Krešimir Galin listed the same find among his Bosnian bullroarers, one of three he named from Truhelka's reports without illustrating any of them. No cord, no wear, no sound test backs either reading — the blade still answers to both names.","pull_quote":"An Steinartefakten wurde im Tumulus von Mahrevići nur ein Wetzstein aus rötlichem Sandschiefer von länglich-viereckigem Querschnitt gefunden. Er ist 10.2 cm lang, oben etwas zugespitzt und mit einer Hängeöse versehen (Fig. 2).","pull_quote_translation":"As stone artefacts, only a whetstone of reddish sandstone-slate, elongated and rectangular in cross-section, was found in the Mahrevići tumulus. It is 10.2 cm long, somewhat pointed at the top, and furnished with a suspension eye (Fig. 2).","pull_quote_cite":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Ein Tumulus der La-Tène-Periode in Mahrevići (Bez. Čajnica),\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 12 (1912), p. 17","term_gloss":"Wetzstein: German, \"whetstone\" — Truhelka's name for the blade.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"After c. 250 BC","date_qualification":"Middle La Tène tumulus context; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"burial_horizon","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"truhelka1912_mahrevici_sandstone_whetstone_bullroarer, Truhelka 1912 pp. 16–17 fig. 2; Galin 1988 p. 136","sources":[{"citation":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Ein Tumulus der La-Tène-Periode in Mahrevići (Bez. Čajnica),\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 12 (1912), pp. 12-28, printed p. 17, Fig. 2; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_12_1912_0012-0028.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220617232417/https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_12_1912_0012-0028.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Ein Tumulus der La-Tène-Periode in Mahrevići (Bez. Čajnica),\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 12 (1912), pp. 12-28, printed p. 17, Fig. 2; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","source_display":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Ein Tumulus der La-Tène-Periode in Mahrevići (Bez. Čajnica),\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 12 (1912), pp. 12-28, printed p. 17, Fig. 2; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","date_citation_display":"Truhelka 1912 pp. 16–17 fig. 2; Galin 1988 p. 136","object_display":"A slim, rectangular-in-cross-section blade of reddish sandstone-slate, 10.2 cm long, pointed at the upper end and pierced there by a single suspension hole. It was the only stone object recovered from the tumulus.","function_display":"Sharpening, per the excavator's original whetstone identification.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mahrevi tumulus","display_name":"Mahrevići perforated whetstone","image":{"full":"assets/objects/TRUHELKA1912-001_truhelka1912_p17_fig2.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/TRUHELKA1912-001_truhelka1912_p17_fig2_thumb.jpg","alt":"Truhelka’s 1912 Fig. 2 drawing of the long perforated Mahrevići stone slat, labeled “Wetzstein aus Schiefer” (slate whetstone).","credit":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Ein Tumulus der La-Tène-Periode in Mahrevići (Bez. Čajnica),\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 12 (1912), p. 17, Fig. 2","license":"Public domain (1912 publication)","source_page":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_12_1912_0012-0028.pdf","rehosted":false,"representative":false,"caption":"Mahrevići perforated sandstone slat, Truhelka 1912 fig. 2; later proposed as a bullroarer."},"slug":"truhelka1912-001-mahrevici-la-tene-tumulus"}