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  title info:
    title: Ancient ivory
    sub title: masterpieces of the Assyrian empire
  name:
    name part: Herrmann, Georgina
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm.
  abstract: Ivory is a wonderful material, tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for the elephant, it has been highly prized from the Palaeolithic to the present day, in part by virtue of its rarity and the difficulty of acquiring it. During the early first millennium BC, the "Age of Ivory," literally thousands of carved ivories found their way to the Assyrian capital city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud, in northern Iraq. The majority were not made there, in the heart of ancient Assyria, but arrived as gift, tribute or booty gathered by the Assyrian kings from the small neighboring states of the ancient Middle Eastern world. The ivories were first unearthed in the mid-19th century by renowned Victorian traveller and adventurer Austen Henry Layard, but it was not until the mid-20th century that the extent of the treasure was realized by Max Mallowan, the archaeologist husband of Agatha Christie. Thousands of extraordinary ivories have since been excavated from the ruins of the ancient city's extravagant palaces, temples and forts.
  table of contents: Preface: from discovery to destruction -- Introduction: masterpieces of ancient ivory -- The city of Nimrud and it's discovery -- Ah, Assyria! -- The Phoenicians: master craftsmen -- Syro-Phoenician ivories -- The ivories of North Syria -- the influence of regionalism on furniture and the minor arts -- The age of Ivory.
  note: Georgina Herrmann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ivories
  subject:
    topic: Ivories, Assyro-Babylonian
  classification: NK5860 .H46 2017
  classification: 736/.6209394
  identifier: 0500051917
  identifier: 9780500051917
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 161026
    record change date: 20180214131211.0
    record identifier: in00003885445