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)
17139 (none) (none) (none) Ivory kohl-pot in the form of a lotus carved and with lines inlaid with black. In very bad condition. Broken and laminated. [drawing 1:1]
1645 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pin. With six grooves at head; pierced just below head. [drawing 2:5]
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.
16294 (none) (none) (none) Ivory Rod. Circular in section & tapering slightly; both ends missing; broken into many pieces & mended. [additional note on back]
17440 (none) (none) (none) Kohl pot? Ivory? Fragment.
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.
7905 (none) (none) (none) Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing]
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.
7801 (none) 1928,1009.11 (none) Phoenician Inscription Ivory On a lid (of box) Dedication to Astart. HC.39
16371 31-43-127 (none) (none) Pins(?). Ivory. 10 in all. Tips mostly missing. [drawing]
177A (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 for attaching the ivory to some kind of base. U.177E is full length 0128 l. [drawing1:1]
177C (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]
177D (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]
177E (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]
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]
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