Inventory Number: | AM 230 | |
Title: | Ivory Relief | |
Category: | Bone & Ivory | |
Description: | Single fragment preserving part of rim and body, probably of a pyxis. Broken at three sides. Heavy encrustations on interior and exterior. Interior surface cracked on rim. Carved decoration in fairly high relief; hunting scene: man with club, and dog attacking animals (lion, rabbit etc.). Molding on top. Byzantine. | |
Context: | Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 4. Eastern section of area, north of Houses (17:F). | |
Notebook Page: | 40 | |
Dimensions: | L. 0.102; W. 0.055; Th. 0.006 | |
Date: | 16 April 1937 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 253-257, fig. 82. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 7 (1938) Card: AM 230 |