CATAL2007-001 - archaeological find
Çatalhöyük Building 59 antler pendant
Turkey - Konya Plain - Central Anatolia - Near East
Function not recorded Candidate only
Source term: crude antler pendant of the bullroarer type
An oven fill in Building 59 at Çatalhöyük gave up a rough antler blade - flat, tapering, holed near its squared end, its tip snapped off long before it was buried. The worked-bone report filed it as a crude antler pendant of the bullroarer type, a phrase that catches the site's standing puzzle: a whole class of these plain perforated plaques is catalogued as pendants while looking far too unfinished to be ornaments, and Nerissa Russell has floated loom weights, plumb bobs and bullroarers for the class alike. This one is small, dated only by the house it lay in, and has never been examined for wear.
a crude antler pendant of the bullroarer type
Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report:175
- Object
- Long, roughly flat antler blade tapering from a squared, single-perforated end, the tip broken away in antiquity; the report publishes no measurements, and the surviving length of roughly 7 cm is only a read off the figure's scale bar.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Çatalhöyük site anchor, the same coordinate carried by the 2005 antler bullroarer row; not a building or unit coordinate.
- Source location
Page references
Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, printed p. 175, Fig. 127; find 14620.F1; Neo-Lithics 1/16 p. 28