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The origin of the raw elephant ivory used in Greece and the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lorna G. Hayward
Lorna G. Hayward*
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Abstract

Carvings made of elephant ivory are a characteristic, though uncommon, artefact of the later Bronze Age in Greece and the islands. Where did the raw material for them come from — Syria to the east, or Africa to the south and southwest?

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 242 , March 1990 , pp. 103 - 109
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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