Who made this?
The artist of this piece is unknown. Most small medieval sculptures such as this are not signed or attributed to any specific artist. Workshops of enamellers and metalworkers were spread throughout the country. The artists who made this piece were highly skilled and specialized in bronze and champlevé enamel.
The textile in the glass tube was probably made in one of the textile workshops in the eastern Mediterranean (for more details visit Textiles). These workers were also highly specialized in their field and worked with valuable materials such as silk, so the small piece used to wrap this bone accentuated that it was something important, to be treasured and protected on its journey.