Remember the tridacne shell sculpted in the shape of an owl in my blogpost from 2016: here?
I saw another sculpted shell, two months ago, in the exhibition 'Gods of Egypt' in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Glenn Markoe writes in his book 'Phoenicians' (2000) that over a hundred examples of carved tridacna shells have been found from Italy to the Near East. Similar in artistic style, they were probably produced in the mid-seventh century BC, made or distributed from the southern coast of Phoenicia. They were probably used to store eye cosmetics.
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