{"id":"TURK2022-001","label":"Mala Triglavca bone fish brnivka","people_or_site":"Mala Triglavca rock shelter (Divača)","country_current":"Slovenia","historic_region":"Kras (Karst) plateau / Divača","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"brnivka / bullroarer","source_language":"Slovenian / Croatian / English","object_description":"An 11 cm fish-shaped bone blade from the Mesolithic level: a drilled hole sits in place of the eye and a semicircular opening at the mouth, either able to take a cord; the flanks carry fine incised lines and dots. Found in 1984 by France Leben.","function_summary":"Prehistoric use unrecorded; modern readings run from amulet to bullroarer, and the original buzzed loudly in a 1984 sound test.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"turk2022mezolitik","source_type":"academic_article_pdf","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.1.2","page_or_plate":"Turk 2022 p. 47 and Pl. 2 no. 7 (p. 74); Omerzel-Terlep 1998:171-172","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Divača locality point, Kras plateau; the Mala Triglavca shelter opens just south of the town.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"From the Mesolithic layer of Mala Triglavca, a rock shelter on the Kras plateau near Divača, came an eleven-centimetre fish carved in bone - eye drilled through, mouth opening in a half-round notch, flanks pricked with fine lines and dots like scales. Either opening will take a cord, and when the original was swung soon after its 1984 discovery it gave out a loud, buzzing, hard-to-describe tone. France Leben, the archaeologist who found it, first thought of a small knife, an ornament or an amulet; students of Slovenia's earliest instruments have since heard something more in the singing fish - a brnivka, Slovene for bullroarer.","pull_quote":"Zvočni preizkus predmeta kmalu po njegovi najdbi je dokazal zanimiv in glasen ter težko opisljiv brneč zven.","pull_quote_translation":"A sound test of the object soon after its discovery proved an intriguing, loud and hard-to-describe buzzing tone.","pull_quote_cite":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, Etnolog 8 (1998), p. 172","term_gloss":"brnivka = Slovene for bullroarer, from brneti, 'to buzz'.","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":"c. 10,000–5500 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"mixed_stratigraphic_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"turk2022mezolitik, Turk 2022 p. 47 and Pl. 2 no. 7 (p. 74); Omerzel-Terlep 1998:171-172","sources":[{"citation":"Matija Turk, “Mezolitik Slovenije / The Mesolithic in Slovenia,” Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 39(1) (2022):39–80, p. 47, pl. 2 no. 7 at p. 74; after Brodar (2009)","url":"https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.1.2"},{"citation":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, “Prazgodovinska kamnita in koščena tolkala, drgala, idiofoni, ropotulje in brnivke,” Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 171–172"}],"source_citations":"Matija Turk, “Mezolitik Slovenije / The Mesolithic in Slovenia,” Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 39(1) (2022):39–80, p. 47, pl. 2 no. 7 at p. 74; after Brodar (2009); Mira Omerzel-Terlep, “Prazgodovinska kamnita in koščena tolkala, drgala, idiofoni, ropotulje in brnivke,” Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 171–172","source_display":"Matija Turk, “Mezolitik Slovenije / The Mesolithic in Slovenia,” Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 39(1) (2022):39–80, p. 47, pl. 2 no. 7 at p. 74; after Brodar (2009); Mira Omerzel-Terlep, “Prazgodovinska kamnita in koščena tolkala, drgala, idiofoni, ropotulje in brnivke,” Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 171–172","date_citation_display":"Turk 2022, Turk 2022 p. 47 and Pl. 2 no. 7 (p. 74); Omerzel-Terlep 1998:171-172","object_display":"An 11 cm fish-shaped bone blade from the Mesolithic level: a drilled hole sits in place of the eye and a semicircular opening at the mouth, either able to take a cord; the flanks carry fine incised lines and dots. Found in 1984 by France Leben.","function_display":"Prehistoric use unrecorded; modern readings run from amulet to bullroarer, and the original buzzed loudly in a 1984 sound test.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mala triglavca","display_name":"Mala Triglavca bone fish brnivka","image":{"full":"assets/objects/TURK2022-001_mala_triglavca_bone_fish.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/TURK2022-001_mala_triglavca_bone_fish_thumb.jpg","alt":"Both faces and the side profile of the Mala Triglavca bone fish, with a drilled eye and notched mouth at the head.","credit":"Matija Turk, Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 39/1 (2022), Pl. 2 no. 7, after Brodar 2009","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.1.2","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Both faces and the side profile of the Mala Triglavca bone fish: the drilled eye and notched mouth at left."},"slug":"turk2022-001-mala-triglavca-rock-shelter-divaca"}