‘Atiqot 106, 2022 “Jerusalem Ivories”: Iron Age Decorated Ivory Panels from Building 100, Giv‘ati Parking Lot Excavations, and Their Cultural Setting Reli Avisar, Yiftah Shalev, Harel Shochat, Yuval Gadot and Ido Koch Introduction Decorated ivory artifacts are among the most conspicuous items to be found in archaeological excavations. The rarity of the material, taken from large animals, and the highly elaborate artwork carried out in specialized workshops, make ivory items prestigious and expensive to this day. It should come as no surprise that in the ancient Southern Levant collections of ivory-made items were found only in prominent cities, such as Late Bronze Age Megiddo (Loud 1939) and Iron Age Samaria (Crowfoot and Crowfoot 1938). Furthermore, they come from buildings recognized as part of palatial complexes. Within this context, we present a preliminary report on an assemblage of ivory items found in the City of David National Park (Fig. 1) 1 during the 2017–2019 excavation seasons conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University. These items are the first of their kind to be found in Jerusalem. Apart from revealing the wealth of Jerusalem’s elite in the city’s heydays and on the eve of its destruction in 586 BCE, the findings also present an opportunity to discuss the cultural and economic role of the city’s elite in the global network that connected courts and their agents across the ancient Near East. 1 The excavations at Giv‘ati Parking Lot (License Nos. G-71/17, G-11/18 and G-10/19) were conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University, and funded by the ‘Ir David Foundation (El‘ad). They were directed by Yuval Gadot and Yiftah Shalev, with the assistance of Efrat Bocher and Nitsan Shalom (area supervision) and Rikki Zalut Har-Tuv and Shiran Aber (registration). We thank Vadim Essman (surveying), Naama Earon (artifact drawing and reconstruction), Dafna Gazit and Sasha Flit (lab photography), Assaf Peretz and Vitali Fenik (field photography), Deborah Sandhaus and Liora Freud (pottery) and Diana Medellin (assistance with conservation). Special thanks go to Ilan Naor (conservation and restoration) and Orna Cohen (restoration and display).