Ivory — The Atlas

Roman religion

Ivory appears in Roman religion.
Virgil’s Aeneid Book 1 seats ivory among the temple doors and gifts of Dido’s Carthage. A named ivory in that epic, not elephant as the animal and not Pliny pharmacy ivory restated.
from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)
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Hellenic religion

Ivory appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias names ivory among chryselephantine cult images and costly dedications. A named ivory in that periegesis, not elephant as Pliny’s animal alone and not a piano-key dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Ivory is used in Hellenic religion.
The Iliad seats ivory among precious house-fittings, dyed cheek-pieces, and luxury craft speech in Achaean and Trojan wealth scenes. A named Homeric ivory in adornment use, not bone as flatten and not a Pausanias dedication dump alone.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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Egyptian religion

Ivory appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus notes ivory among Ethiopian and Libyan tribute and trade speech tied to the Egyptian logos. A named ivory in that traveler’s speech, not Pliny ivory-medicine alone and not a piano-key dump.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Vedic tradition

Ivory appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda names tusk (dánta) among elephant wealth and carved gift speech. A named Vedic ivory material in that corpus, not Pliny pharmacy ivory and not elephant as the animal already walked.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Buddhist traditions

Ivory appears in Buddhist traditions.
Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats ivory among precious materials of ornament and craft in Buddha-land wealth speech. A named ivory in that sūtra, not a colonial trophy dump and not bone as the relic already edged.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Mesopotamian tradition

Ivory appears in Mesopotamian tradition.
The Epic of Gilgamesh seats luxury materials among Uruk’s wealth and gift speech; ivory is published luxury inlay/ornament ware in that treasure neighborhood. A named ivory in that epic’s luxury world, not bone as raw osseous material and not a Pliny pharmacy dump.
from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)
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Northwest Coast tradition

Ivory appears in Northwest Coast tradition.
Swanton’s Tlingit collection seats tusk and tooth ivory among carved ornament and wealth of that coast. A named ivory in that ethnography, not bone as ordinary vertebrate hard remainder and not Pliny ivory pharmacy alone.
from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909
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Yoruba Ifá

Ivory is used in Yoruba Ifá.
Bascom’s apparatus plates and text seat ivory among Ifá gear: carved ivory tapper-bells, ivory or elephant-bone decorative heads kept with the palm nuts, and ivory spheroids used as nut substitutes. A named ivory material use in that ethnography’s Ifá, not Pliny pharmacy ivory and not bone alone.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Ivory is historically related to Bell.
Bascom’s apparatus plates pair ivory with the irọ Ifá tapper-bell — wealthier diviners have bells carved of ivory. A named ivory–bell material meeting in that ethnography, not identity of ivory and bell and not brass bells alone.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Ivory is historically related to Ikin.
Bascom records ivory spheroids and carved ivory ‘nuts’ used as substitutes for the sixteen palm nuts in some sets and traveler reports. A named ivory–ikin neighborhood in that ethnography, not a claim that ivory is ikin and not opele as the chain.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Bone is historically related to Ivory.
Bascom’s Plate 1A pairs carved heads of ivory and of elephant bone among the decorative irin kept with the palm-nut set — neighboring hard materials of the same apparatus shelf. A named bone–ivory keep-apart in that ethnography, not identity of the two substances.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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European folklore

Curule chair is historically related to Ivory.
Sheraton’s Dictionary seats the curule chair among antique X-framed show seats that cabinet speech recalls with ivory and precious materials of classical furniture, not a linen camp stool and not a stuffed wing chair. A named curule in that antiquarian cabinet reference.
from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803
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Brisé fan is historically related to Ivory.
Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the brisé fan among European folding fans made of sticks alone without a separate leaf, commonly ivory (and wood) sticks in costume speech. A named brise-fan in that costume speech, not a cockade-fan full disk, not a cabriolet-fan windowed leaf, and not a lace-fan.
from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879
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Gunter’s scale is historically related to Ivory.
Heather’s Treatise seats logarithmic Gunter’s lines among drawing-scale furniture constructed and used with the pocket-case plain scale (ivory) and commonly laid down upon pocket sectors. A named gunter-scale in that Gunter’s-lines speech, not Gunter’s surveying chain, and not Coggeshall’s sliding rule alone.
from J. F. Heather · Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, 1849 (and later PD editions)
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Ivory black paste is historically related to Ivory.
Ure’s Dictionary seats IVORY BLACK as the velvety black pigment prepared from ivory dust by calcination, ground and levigated for copperplate printing. A named ivory-black-paste in that ivory-dust black continuity, not lampblack paste, and not bone black alone.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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