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Ancient Ivory
- Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire
Engelsk Hardback
Ancient Ivory
- Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire
Engelsk Hardback

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Elephant ivory is a tactile, beautiful, and workable material. It can be made into many different forms and is the strongest material in the animal kingdom. It has been highly prized from the Paleolithic to the present day, and the impact on elephants has been severe—indeed, the Syrian elephant was hunted to extinction. Long ago, during the early first millennium bce—“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 but arrived as gifts, tributes, or booty gathered by the Assyrian kings from the small neighboring states of the ancient Middle Eastern world, with the ivory itself probably sourced from the African elephant.Ancient Ivory
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780500051917
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0500051917
Udg. Dato:
20 jul 2017
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
289mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Oplagsdato:
20 jul 2017
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