The Barberini ivory, a 6th century ivory diptych representing either Anastasius or Justinian I.

A ivory diptych of Stilicho ( right ) with his wife Serena ( Roman ) | Serena and son Eucherius

* C. 390 – 401 – Priestess of Bacchus: Late Antiquity ivory diptych, documents the relationship of the senators Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus.

In Late Antiquity, ivory diptychs with covers carved in low relief on the outer faces were a significant art-form: the " consular diptych " was made to celebrate an individual's becoming Roman consul, but some, perhaps including the Poet and Muse diptych at Monza, may have been made for private use.

The largest surviving Byzantine ivory panel ( 428 mm × 143 mm ), is a leaf from a diptych in the Justinian court manner of c. 525 – 50, which features an archangel.

The Barberini ivory, a late Theodosian Byzantine Empire | Byzantine ivory carving | ivory leaf from an imperial diptych, from an imperial workshop in Constantinople in the first half of the sixth century ( Louvre Museum )

Carved ivory diptychs were used for secular subjects, as in the imperial and consular diptychs presented to friends, as well as religious ones, both Christian and pagan-they seem to have been especially a vehicle for the last group of powerful pagans to resist Christianity, as in the late 4th century Symmachi – Nicomachi diptych.

Typically Rayonnant pierced gables and open tracery employed as a micro-architectural framing device in an ivory diptych

For example, Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art notes fibulae depicted in ivory diptychs of Stilicho and his entourage:

Private libraries appeared during the late republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by illiterate owners who scarcely read their titles in the course of a lifetime, but displayed the scrolls in bookcases ( armaria ) of citrus wood inlaid with ivory that ran right to the ceiling: " by now, like bathrooms and hot water, a library is got up as standard equipment for a fine house ( domus ).

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Both these sets of tarabs pass from the main bridge to the right side set of pegs through small holes in the chaati supported by hollow ivory / bone beads.

Plastic tiles in the middle ; tiles using both ivory and bamboo on the left and right sideTraditionally, Mahjong tiles were made of bone, often backed with bamboo.

A vertical crack on the right side of the face is linked to the internal structure of the ivory.

Private libraries appeared during the late Roman republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by illiterate owners who scarcely read their titles in the course of a lifetime, but displayed the scrolls in bookcases ( armaria ) of citrus wood inlaid with ivory that ran right to the ceiling: " by now, like bathrooms and hot water, a library is got up as standard equipment for a fine house ( domus ).

The rectangular back of an ivory comb ( right ) from Bavaria, from about 1200, is delicately carved with a Tree of Jesse scene, showing Jesse lying with the tree emerging from his navel.

Its silk string is plucked with a pointed tubular plectrum placed on the index finger of the right hand while the rokan ( a tubular ivory device similar to a guitar slide placed over the middle finger of the left hand ) slightly depresses the string — though not so hard that it presses against the hardwood soundboard — to vary the pitch.

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.

Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.

They slept -- Mynheer with a marvelously high-pitched snoring, the damn seahorse ivory teeth watching him from a bedside table.

Rummaging through a stack of drawers nearby, you unearthed an antique French chess set in ivory and sandalwood, which, along with two box Kodaks, you added to your haul.

The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

The term " ivory tower " often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism.

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.

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.

Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )

These remains include a Frankish sword adorned with gold and garnets and a tafl game with Roman pawns of ivory.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

European-style dominoes are traditionally made of ivory / bone, or a dark hardwood such as ebony, with contrasting black or white pips ( inlaid or painted ).

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.

Specula were cast in bronze as one piece or with a tang into which a wooden, bone or ivory handle fitted.

) 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.

Here and there would be a Company post where Company agents seemed imprisoned, captive by the business of ivory ; now and then on shore an occasional native village would be seen, with a frenzied uproar by the natives.

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.

Its wealth came from controlling the trade in ivory from the Limpopo Valley, copper from the mountains of northern Transvaal, and gold from the Zimbabwe Plateau between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers, with the Swahili merchants at Chibuene.

Imported beads found there and at other Zhizo sites, are evidence of trade, probably of ivory and skins, with traders on the Indian Ocean coast.

Ancient Greek ivory Pyxis ( vessel ) | pyxis with griffins attacking stags.

Men with ivory tusks, Dar es Salaam, c. 1900.

It contained ivory tablets, vase fragments and clay sealings bearing the name of Pharaoh Hor-Aha and his possible wife or mother, Neithhotep.

Eurydice ’ s portrait-statue, together with those of her most celebrated son Philip II, Philip II's wife, Olympias, her grandson, Alexander the Great, and her husband, Amyntas III, were realized by the Athenian statuary and sculptor Leochares in ivory and gold.