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Ivory carvings
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I. Middle East and Phoenicia

Ivory, i.e. tusks of the boar, the hippopotamus and particularly the (African as well as Asian)  elephant, was extremely popular from the Neolithic period onwards as a material in ‘craftwork’. In the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, the important workshops of the Syrian-Phoenician coastal towns and also of Egypt developed styles that were recognizably their own. Ivory carvings (IC) were widespread through …

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Niemeyer, Hans Georg (Hamburg), Wartke, Ralf-B. (Berlin), Prayon, Friedhelm (Tübingen) and Neudecker, Richard (Rome), “Ivory carvings”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e329280>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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