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:
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