Early Dynastic Ivory Lion from Abydos, Egypt

This item is an ivory carving of a lion from the North Cemetery at Abydos, Egypt in the collections of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/petrie-museum) The following is from the Petrie Museum's Online Catalogue (http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceUCLPC&search=accession_number=%20%27UC15509%27&limit=10&SRT0=&TYP0=&SEQ0=&position=1 ). UC15509 Ivory lion gaming piece, probably of elephant ivory. Forelegs missing; both sides decayed. Found in Abydos Tombs of the Courtiers tomb 507, one of the burials around the funeral enclosure of king Djer Place: Abydos (Egypt A - C / Egypt) Materials: ivory Dimensions: length: 6.5 cms height: 3.3 cms Publications: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. *Tombs of the Courtiers and Oxyrhynkhos*. pl. XX. 507 and p.6 Drenkhahn, Rosemarie. Elfenbein im Alten Agypten : Leihgaben aus dem Petrie Museum London. p.54 Jouer dans l'Antiquite. p.126, I11.120