Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

In later times we meet the same representation on the renowned ivory tablet of Trier, depicting the solemn translation of relics.

Meyer concluded from an ivory tablet from the reign of Djer that the Egyptian civil calendar was created in 4241 BC, a date that appears in a number of old books.

The first is the aforementioned ivory tablet from the reign of Djer which supposedly indicates the beginning of a Sothic cycle, the rising of Sothis on the same day as the new year.

* UC 16182 ivory tablet from Abydos, subsidiary tomb 612 of the enclosure of Djer ( Petrie 1925: pl.

An ivory tablet from Abydos mentions that Djer visited Buto and Sais in the Nile Delta.

Inscriptions on ivory tablet from Abydos suggest that Hor-Aha led an expedition against the Nubians.

The earliest surviving exemplar of a boxwood writing tablet with an ivory hinge was among the finds recovered from the 14th c. BCE Uluburun Shipwreck near Kaş in Turkey in 1986.

Galatea ( Greek: Γαλάτεια ; " she who is milk-white ") is a name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life, in Greek mythology ; in modern English the name usually alludes to that story.

Here Constantine is not said to be king, but a 12th-century text referring to this story, the Miracula, specifically names him as such, further adding that he gave Petroc an ivory horn upon his conversion which became one of the saint's chief relics.

The Forward to the story tells of his travels to Punt with Muriela, refers to a scam perpetrated against worshippers of an ivory goddess and then on to Zembabwei, where he joins a trading caravan on its way to Shem.

The Tristan story was very popular in several art media, from ivory mirror-cases to the 13th century Sicilian Tristan Quilt.

" The word " elephant " has its origins in the Greek, meaning " ivory " or " elephant ".

The word " elephant " has its origins in the Greek, meaning " ivory " or " elephant ".

A forest crop that has not been extensively cultivated is ivory nuts from the tagua palm.

The so-called vegetable ivory is the hard endosperm of the egg-sized seed.

The per capita income of the CAR is often listed as being around $ 300 a year, said to be one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the more important but unregistered sale of foods, locally-produced alcohol, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicines, for example.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

) Renaissance and Baroque guitars are easily distinguished because the Renaissance guitar is very plain and the Baroque guitar is very ornate, with ivory or wood inlays all over the neck and body, and a paper-cutout inverted " wedding cake " inside the hole.

Mastic ( aromatic, ivory coloured resin ) is grown on the Aegean island of Chios.

Marlow is an English sailor who speaks of a time when he gained a position to captain a steamboat for an ivory trading company ; his job was to transport supplies, company personnel, and ivory-up and down a large river that snakes its way through a mysterious wilderness.

From the steamboat's cabin Kurtz was placed in, he is heard yelling at the manager: "' Save me !— save the ivory, you mean.

The decorative arts collection they donated, called the Brunnier Collection, is extensive, consisting of ceramics, glass, dolls, ivory, jade, and enameled metals.

In adults, the bill is ivory in color, chalky white in juveniles.

The trade in certain teeth and tusks other than elephant is well established and widespread, therefore " ivory " can correctly be used to describe any mammalian teeth or tusks of commercial interest which is large enough to be carved or scrimshawed ( crocodile teeth are also used ).

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Owing to the rapid decline in the populations of the animals that produce it, the importation and sale of ivory in many countries is banned or severely restricted.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Mammoth ivory is used today to make handcrafted knives and similar implements.

Mammoth ivory is rare and costly, because mammoths have been extinct for millennia and scientists loathe to sell museum-worthy specimens in pieces, but this trade does not threaten any living species.

A dictionary of the Bible by Sir William Smith published in 1863, notes the Hebrew word for peacock Thukki, derived from the Classical Tamil for peacock Thogkai joins other Classical Tamil words for ivory, cotton-cloth and apes preserved in the Hebrew Bible.

The only completely preserved portrait of the king is a 3 inches high ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of later period at Abydos in 1903.

" The abundant bones, even skeletons, of mammoth, rhinoceros, musk-ox, and other megafauna along with the mammoth ivory found in these islands are preserved by permafrost, in which they are encased.

Along the southern coast of this island, Von Toll ( 1985 ), in one of his more important and interesting discoveries, found well preserved bones, ivory, peat, wood, and even a tree within 40 meter ( 130 feet ) high sea cliffs that exposes Late Pleistocene sediments.

The Venus of Brassempouy is preserved in the Musée d ' Archéologie Nationale at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris Since ivory is very susceptible to damage from factors such as temperature change, moisture, and light, the figure is not part of the museum's permanent display.

Precious cameos and other antique carved gems might be preserved when incorporated into crowns and diadems and liturgical objects, consular ivory diptychs by being used as gospel covers.

Anglo-Saxon artists also worked in fresco, stone, ivory and whalebone ( notably the Franks Casket ), metalwork ( for example the Fuller brooch ), glass and enamel, many examples of which have been recovered through archaeological excavation and some of which have simply been preserved over the centuries, especially in churches on the Continent, as the Vikings, Normans and Reformation iconoclasm between them left virtually nothing in England except for books and archaeological finds.

His name is also preserved on ivory tags and earthen jar seals.

His name is also preserved on ivory tags and earthen jar seals.

* Art products ; for example, plastic objects, carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in metals ( gold, silver, copper and bronze ), or modelled in clay, faience, paste, etc.

19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.

Most commonly the carvings of ivory and wood were for the purpose of hunting weapons.

Worn for decorative reasons, and sometimes to signify social standing, reputation, and the age of the wearer, Aleuts would pierce their lower lips with walrus ivory and wear beads or bones.

In the Americas, fur ( North America ) and sugar ( South America ) were the most important trade goods, while African settlements traded slaves — mainly destined for the plantations on the Antilles and Suriname — gold, and ivory.

In ancient times Egypt also had strong trading with Punt. They traded cloth grain copper papyrus and gems for items like myrrh, ebony, ivory, and wild animals.

Saddles are typically made of plastic or bone for acoustic guitars, though synthetics and some exotic animal tooth variations ( e. g. fossilized tooth, ivory, etc.

" Marlow introduces the events that led to his appointment to captain a river-steamboat for an ivory trading company.

Internal evidence from the poems gives evidence of familiarity with the topography and place-names of this area of Asia Minor, for example, Homer refers to meadow birds at the mouth of the Caystros, a storm in the Icarian sea, and mentions that women in Maeonia and Caria stain ivory with scarlet.

Herero and Nama competed for guns and ammunition, providing cattle, ivory, and ostrich feathers.

They traded in gold, ivory and copper for cloth and glass.

It was only in the Comnenian period ( 1081 – 1185 ) that the cult of the icon became widespread in the Byzantine world, partly on account of the dearth of richer materials ( such as mosaics, ivory, and enamels ), but also because an iconostasis a special screen for icons was introduced then in ecclesiastical practice.

Ivory has been important since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, dominoes, joint tubes, piano keys and billiard balls.

Synthetic substitutes for ivory have been developed.

Both the Greek and Roman civilizations practiced ivory carving to make large quantities of high value works of art, precious religious objects, and decorative boxes for costly objects.

The Syrian and North African flacid elephant populations were reduced to extinction, probably due to the demand for ivory in the Classical world.

The Chinese have long valued ivory for both art and utilitarian objects.

In Southeast Asian countries where Muslim Malay peoples live, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of kris daggers.