29564
Accession Number
26130
Title Of Article Chaper
The origin of the raw elephant ivory used in Greece and the Aegean during the late Bronze Age
Title Of Journal Book
Antiquity
Volume
64
Issue
242
Pages
103-109
Collation
1 fig.
Reference Bibliography
refs.
ISSN
0003-598X
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Carvings made of elephant ivory are a characteristic, though uncommon, artifact of the later Bronze Age in Greece and in the Aegean islands. Explores the question of where the raw material for them came frommSyria to the east, or Africa to the south and southwest.
Keywords
provenance;ivory;Greece;animal materials;sculpture;Aegean; Bronze Age; elephant ivory;Africa;Syria
pub_id
29564