Agora Object: AM 230
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