Part of the head of an ivory figurine was recently unearthed in the City of David Archaeological Park. It was excavated in a layer of fill deposited against the ancient eastern fortification wall of Jerusalem. Pottery recovered from the fill dates the stratum to the late seventh century BC. The ivory head, broken vertically from the forehead to the chin, measures less than an inch in height. It depicts a woman with an Egyptian-style hairdo and a band across her forehead. During the Iron Age, ivory carvings were prized luxury items: examples have been discovered in Assyria, Jerusalem, and Samaria. The Bible also mentions ivory furnishings, including Solomon’s ivory throne (1 Kgs 10:18), the ivory-inlaid beds described in Amos 6:4, and the “ivory house” of King Ahab (1 Kgs 22:39).
Source: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/carved-ivory-emerges-from-biblical-jerusalem/
