Leograph Bracket; Begram; First Century A.D.; 11.8 inches high; National Museum of Afghanistan; Begram, Room 13.
Leograph Bracket; Begram; First Century A.D.; 11.8 inches high; National Museum of Afghanistan; Begram, Room 13.
Carved panel from an ivory bed; excavated at Ugarit (today called Ras Shamra, Syria); Late Fourteenth Century B.C.; 9 ½ inches; probably Phoenician; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Ivory Game Box, Late Bronze Age; ca. Twelfth Century B.C.; Cyprus; 4 ¼ x 5 inches; British Museum, London, U.K.
Statue of Nubian with monkey, oryx, and leopard skins, ca. 750 B.C., Neo-Assyrian period, Phoenician style; 5 5/16 inches high; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Statuette of a young girl; painted ivory; Egypt, Dynasty XVIII, ca. 1390-1353 B.C.; 3 ¼ x 5/8 inches; British Museum, London, U.K.
Ivory statuette of a king; the figure wears the robe and white crown associated with the sed festival of kingship; Abydos, Egypt; First Dynasty (2920 – 2770 B.C.); 3.46 inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Ivory plaque depicting the birth of the god Horus; late Eighth Century B.C.; Syria; 3.34 x 3.97 inches; Louvre, Paris, France.
Cosmetic box, duck-shaped; Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650-1050 B.C.); Enkomi, Cyprus; 9.6 inches; British Museum, London, U.K.
Warrior holding a climbing vine; ivory panel from Nimrud, Iraq; Eighth Century B.C.; 4 ¼ inches high; from The Published Ivories from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud; British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 2004.
King Tutankhamun’s headrest (ruled 1334-1325 B.C), ivory; figure of the god Shu kneeling and holding the head support; 6 7/8 inches high; 11 7/16 long; excavated by Howard Carter; first published by Carter in Vol. III, “The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen.” 1922-23; currently at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Figure of a young woman; Hittite (Anatolia, Turkey); Fourteenth to Thirteenth Centuries B.C.; 4.5 inches; British Museum, London, U.K.
Ivory game box, Late Bronze Age; ca. Twelfth Century B.C.; 11.81 inches; from Tomb 58, Enkomi, Cyprus; British Museum, London, U.K.
Chair, inscribed with name Renyseneb; ca. 1450 B.C.; Thebes, Upper Egypt; wood with ebony and ivory; Height 33 15/16 inches; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Disc with engraving of bull; Late Bronze Age; ca. 1300 – 1200 B.C.; Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus; 1.96 inches in diameter; British Museum, London, U.K.
Mirror handle; Late Bronze Age; ca. 1200-1100 B.C.; From Tomb 17, Enkomi, Cyprus; 8 inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Plaque depicting a winged sphinx; Phoenician; ca. Ninth – Eighth centuries B.C.; Found at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq; 2.75 inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Portrait bust of charioteer; perhaps the Emperor Caracalla; Roman, ca. A.D. 300-325; 1.98 inches high; found at Arles, France; British Museum, London, U.K.
