Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 58
is carved from the concavo-convex ivory near the top of a tusk. The back is coveredby a bronze plate fixed by rivets. E. Oldfield, Arundel Societys Catalogue of Ivory Carvings, 1855, class vi a, p. 14 ; F. Pulszky,Catalogue of the Fejcmary Ivories in the Museum of f. Mayer,p. 23, Liverpool, 1856;… … 4 IVORY CARVINGS the consul holding a scroll in one hand : the mappa circensis, or cloth used for giving the signal forthe beginning of the games, first appears in the case of Boethius (a. D. 487), and was afterwardsuniversal. A similar chlamys is found on one leaf of the early consular diptych in…
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