Bone Comb (NHMW-PRAE-81.290)

3D Model

3D scan of a bone comb from Hauskirchen grave 13. The site is located in the northeastern Weinviertel in Austria. Despite its robbery in the past, this grave of an adult woman is one of the richest graves of the Migration Era in the middle Danube region. In this period, such large combs are found only in a few graves of noble women.

The bone comb can be found in Hall 13 of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

This object was digitized for the go!digital 3.0 project bITEM (Beyond the Item - Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond).

Object: Bone comb from Hauskirchen grave 13

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-81.290

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistory Department, Historical Archaeology Collection (curator: Stefan Eichert)

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Scanned and edited by Viola Winkler and Nikola Brodtmann (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.