Ivory
The tusks of elephant or rhinoceros used to make ornaments and other articles.
The tusks of elephant or rhinoceros used to make ornaments and other articles.
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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177F | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-F, narrative lists 3 but specifies A-F] 3 fragments of -ivory-[crossed out] shell. In the shape of a -bull's- [crossed out] lion's leg (?) The drilled holes show traces of bronze probably from attaching the ivory to some kind of base. U.177E is full length 0128 l. [drawing] | |
2677 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory pyxis. Fragmentary: Egyptian, presumably of earlier date than level where found. Carved in relief with figures of dancing-girls. Fitted with hatched lid on a pin (?). Copper wire (rivets?) let in to sides and twisted outside. | |
303 | (none) | 1923,1110.145 | (none) | Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete. | |
314 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory comb. Frs of : the top decorated with str lines and zigzags. | |
450 | (none) | 1923,1110.146 | (none) | Ivory comb. Found in fragments and fitted together. Teeth broken away. On the solid part a simple decoration of lines and cross-hatching. [drawing 1:1] | |
485 | (none) | (none) | B15278 | Ivory box-lid. Circular, rebated below to fit onto the top of a vase (U.476?): the upper surface decorated with concentric circles and radiating lines lightly incised, the lower similarly decorated. | |
7801 | (none) | 1928,1009.11 | (none) | Phoenician Inscription Ivory On a lid (of box) Dedication to Astart. HC.39 | |
785 | (none) | (none) | B15277 | Ivory comb. Broken. Period, Nebuchadrezzar. [drawing 1:1] | |
786 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory comb. Fragments of Like U.785 but without rosettes. | |
7902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work. | |
7903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory box lid. Circular. Convex above with line border and central rosette, 12-petalled: rabetted below to fit circular box. | |
7904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734. | |
7905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing] | |
7907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
7908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point. | |
7913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. White. Fragment. Two rows of teeth; one row has been worn down at an angle. The flat space between the tooth-rows decorated with lines and dotted circles. |
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