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The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1949—1950 Ivories from the N.W. Palace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Extract

The most important of the rich and varied pieces of carved ivory discovered at Nimrud during 1949 and 1950 have already been illustrated and discussed in previous numbers of this Journal. The photographs which accompany this article, Plates XII-XVIII, illustrate the remainder of what still needed to be published from those two seasons: anything omitted is probably too much mutilated or fragmentary to be worth describing.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1952

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References

page 45 note 1 Iraq, XII, pt. 2, 178 f.Google Scholar, XIII, pt. 1, 1-20.

page 47 note 1 Iraq, XIII, pt. 1, 512Google Scholar, and Iraq, II, pt. 2, 179 fGoogle Scholar.

page 47 note 2 Iraq, XII, pt. 2, 178, XIII, pt. 1, 2Google Scholar. There were two dated dockets in room HH; ND. 486, a note of 55 talents of wool, eponym of Taklak-ana-Bêl (715 B.C.), and ND. 805, a note of 5 female camels, eponym of Ṭâb-šär-Aššur (717 B.C.), cf. Iraq, XIII, pt. 2, 116, 118Google Scholar. Note also that similar ivories were found in Sargoti's Palace at Khorsabad.

page 48 note 1 I.L.N. August 4th, 1951, Fig. 17, for a picture of a pyxis with an ivory patch in it.

page 49 note 1 These ivories have been discussed in the first article, The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1951. pp. 1-23.