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    The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the...
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    scenes of hunting, warfare, ritual and processions. The Nimrud Ivories are a large group of ivory carvings, probably mostly originally decorating furniture...
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    the Nimrud ivories, which were discovered at the same time but identified as Phoenician a few years later. However, both the bowls and the ivories pose...
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  • ornately. The Nimrud Ivories: Their Discovery & History, 2015 The Age of Ivory, 2019 The Nimrud ivories: forgotten treasures Nimrud ivories Mona Lisa...
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    Glynne (1970). Ivories in Assyrian Style, Commentary, Catalogue and Plates. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Nimrud ivories "FreeBMD Entry...
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    Tutankhamun (1330s BC) contains many such ivory elements, the largest perhaps his carved headrest. The Nimrud ivories are a large group of such objects recovered...
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    ivories were made locally in the northwest regions on India, and should be dated to the early 1st century CE. Ivory carving Greco-Buddhist Art Nimrud...
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    both cuneiform and Phoenician characters, were discovered at Nimrud. The Nimrud ivories, an important group of small plaques which decorated furniture...
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  • Guardian. Christie ivories to go on show at British Museum "Nimrud Ivories". Art Fund. Retrieved 8 March 2011. "Christie ivories to go on show at British...
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    of Nelson's Column, Frieze of Parnassus Smaller-scale reliefs: Ivory: Nimrud ivories from much of the Near East, Late Antique Consular diptychs, the...
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    Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt. The museum also holds 28 pieces of Nimrud ivories from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. There is material from...
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    The Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is an 8th-century BC piece of rock crystal which was unearthed in 1850 by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian...
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    furniture and other objects go well back into antiquity, as in the Nimrud ivories, Begram ivories and finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Portrait sculpture began...
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    goddess Ishtar, Iraq, c. 1790 BC Room 57 - Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–8th century BC Room 6 – Depiction of...
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    (Tell Harmal) The lady at the window, part of the Nimrud ivories Ivory statuette, part of the Nimrud ivories The Assyrian gallery at the Iraq Museum Throne...
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    goddess Ishtar, Iraq, c. 1790 BC Room 57 - Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–8th century BC Room 6 – Depiction of...
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    Assyrian reliefs and ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: palace reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and ivory carvings from Nimrud. New York: The Metropolitan...
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    Babylonian Chronicles Ur Box inscription Kurkh Monoliths Antiochus cylinder Nimrud ivories Phoenician metal bowls Prehistory and Europe Boxwood altar Franks Casket...
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  • the third millennium BCE lapis lazuli trade from Afghanistan, and the Nimrud ivories. In 1992, she became director of the excavations at Merv, a Silk Road...
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    Decorative plaque which depicts a fighting of man and griffin; 900–800 BC; Nimrud ivories; Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio, US) Oinochoe; 800–700 BC; terracotta;...
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    The ivories were found there by Layard. One of the ivory panels found at "Fort Shalmaneser" is inscribed "Hamath." (R. D. Barnett, "Hamath and Nimrud: Shell...
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    inscription in Middle Persian "The lady at the window," one of the famous Nimrud ivories' plaques Gold earrings, the name of king Shulgi of Ur is inscribed An...
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  • British Museum Excavations at Carchemish, Vol. III, 1952 Catalogue of Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum, 1957, 2nd edn 1975 (trans.) The Jewish sect of...
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    Babylonian Chronicles Ur Box inscription Kurkh Monoliths Antiochus cylinder Nimrud ivories Phoenician metal bowls Prehistory and Europe Boxwood altar Franks Casket...
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    Assyrian reliefs and ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: palace reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and ivory carvings from Nimrud. New York: The Metropolitan...
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  • Babylonian Chronicles Ur Box inscription Kurkh Monoliths Antiochus cylinder Nimrud ivories Phoenician metal bowls Prehistory and Europe Boxwood altar Franks Casket...
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  • Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III 900 BC – The Dowris Hoard and the Nimrud ivories 1000 BC – Olmec figurines, the Shropshire bulla, the rock carvings at...
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  • teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone. First new discoveries of Nimrud ivories by British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by Max Mallowan. 12th century...
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  • throughout the Museum. Acquisitions supported by the BMF include the Nimrud Ivories, the Warren Cup, the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant, the Burney Relief...
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    Decorative plaque which depicts a fighting of man and griffin; 900–800 BC; Nimrud ivories; Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio, US) Oinochoe; 800-700 BC; terracotta;...
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