Keywords: Duck container Louvre AO14778.jpg Duck container a toilette article designed to hold make-up Hippopotamus tusk 13th century BC From Minet el-Beida the harbour town for Ugarit now Ras Shamra in Syria Boîte à fard en forme de canard Ivoire d'hippopotame XIIIe siècle av J -C Provenance Minet el-Beida port d'Ougarit actuelle Ras Shamra en Syrie H 5 5 cm 2 in W 13 2 cm 5 in Museum Louvre Department of Oriental Antiquities Sully ground floor room B http //cartelen louvre fr/cartelen/visite srv car_not_frame idNotice 28101 Louvre f object history credit line From the excavations of Claude Schaeffer 1931 accession number AO 14778 Marie-Lan Nguyen 2006 other versions Sculptures of ducks Minet el-Beida Archaeological cosmetic containers 13th-century BC works Near Eastern Antiquities in the Louvre - Room B Duck container Louvre AO14779.jpg own Marie-Lan Nguyen 2006 Duck-shaped box AO 14779 |