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ANCIENT ASSYRIAN CARVED IVORIES 



They were found at Nimroud, with twenty-nine other pieces, in 1845, after having been buried in 

 the earth twenty-eight centuries (since 980 B. C.) They are now valuable possessions of the British 

 Museum. It could not be decided whether they were parts of a throne, or ornamented the walls of the 

 palace chamber where they were found. The panel showing an Egyptian king holding a lotus is of 

 especial interest. Assyrian ivory carving took its inspiration from Egypt 



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