Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Uluburun

Uluburun Home, Artifact & Image Gallery, Shipwreck Site Plan


Bone & Ivory Objects

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Ivory handle in the form of a female acrobat. (Photo: INA)
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Knuckle bone or astragal probably used as a gaming piece. (Photo: INA)
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Cosmetics applicator terminating in a clenched fist found near a hollow bone tube, presumably representing its outer case. (Photo: INA)
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Trumpet carved from a hippo- potamus incisor(KW 3526) in the likeness of a ram’s horn. Length: 24 cm. (Photo: INA)
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Ivory rods and pomegranate-shaped finials. (Photo: INA)
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Ivory finials of pomegranate shape. (Photo: INA)
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Duck-shaped ivory cosmetics container with hinged-wing cover(KW 2818). Max. length: 14.6 cm. (Photo: INA)
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Wing-shaped lid of ivory for a cosmetics container similar to KW 2818.(Photo: INA)
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Decorative inlay pieces of bone, possibly from a gaming box. (Photo: INA)
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Circular ivory objects, which may have served as spindle-whorls. (Photo: INA)
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Ivory scepter with a disc-shaped finial(below). (Photo: INA)
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