Tusk Fragment with the Ascension

Tusk Fragment with the Ascension

720–970 Radiocarbon date, 95% probability · Egypt or Palestine

Ivory; carved

And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
ACTS 1:9 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

The Met · The Ascension · CC0 · Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

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