The image is a photograph of an open book titled "Ivory". The book is titled "Elephant ivory, as raw material, was imported from the Near East or Egypt. Hippopotamus ivory, in use also during the mycenaean era, had the same provenance. Elephant ivory was evidence reserved for pieces of larger size and significance. In the palatial period (14th-13th centuries BC), artists worked ivory in specialized workshops to make luxury objects as the elaborate jewelry boxes, jewelry handles, and jewelry instruments. They also produced massive amounts of ivory plaques-inlays in luxury furniture, chairs, and other decorative items. Ivory objects or plaques are decorated with relief scenes depicting human figures, griffins, sphinxes, and animals. Groups of plaques come in the shape of bull heads, figure-of-eight shields, columns, and waz-lilies or ivy leaves.