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34- H. A. Groenewcgen-Frankfort, Arrest and fa"",s m »hen Onent, 12, refers to Strcck, Assnr-
Movemcnt, 175. The question must be considered as bnniPa‘< n, 301, n. n, and the scene as ritual. Bar-
part ofthe interpretation of the Assyrian manner of nctt- 1,1 Ira<l> Ir- lS5, refers to Thurcau-Danein,
rendering space which appears in an entirely new Rituc,s m. where the king is said to bring
hght, op. cit., 174.-81. with him to the New Year festival of Ishtar of
35- F- Thurcau-Dangin and others, TilBarsip, 45. Arbcla three captive kings and the head of Tcum-
36. Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 1 (London n™ , .m’ wh.“happ'arsin thc trccofPlatc ”4-
1S53), plates S6-7. Another design, discovered at Dut t'lcrc 15 no evidence that the scene has a religious
Nta„d, i, (■«»). n*
to emerge from thc palm-tree on the right. Andrac
37- The dotted surface in figure 37 represents thc
secs in it an act of thc numcn embodied in thc tree.
portion of the painted plaster which was actually
recovered in die excavation. 53. Professor Mallowan has recently discovered
similar engraved ivories of purely Assyrian style at
P- 93 38. Illustrated London News (28 July 1951) , 134. Nimrud (Illustrated London News, 22 Aug. 1953,
figure 2 (Assumasirpal n). 297, figures 5-7).
i p. 94 don, 1928), 21. piece and plates 1-3.
39* Loud, Khorsabad, 1, 60, figure 72.
54. Gordon Loud, The Megiddo Ivories, fronds- p. ic
40. Groenewcgen-Frankfort, loc. cit.
55. They have been published and studied by
41. Fulanain, The Marsh Arab, Haj Rikkan (L 011-
R. D. Barnett in Iraq, xn (1950), 1-43, plates i-xxii.
42. Gadd, Stones of Assyria (London, 1936), plate Thc imprcssion that Urarrian metal-work has no
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character of its own is confirmed by the important
13.
discoveries of an Urartian fortress at Karmir Blur,
43. Op. cit., plate 10. r
... near Envan. For a full summary, sec Iraq, xrv
P- 96 44- Plates showing on one sheet of reproduction (ip52)f 132-47. Both in themes and in style thc
the several orthostats which belong together have objects found are provincial Assyrian. Only the
been published by A. Paterson, Assyrian Sculpture pottcry is characteristic.
in the Palace o/Sinacherib (Thc Hague, 1915). ^.Journal of Near Eastern Studies, v (1946). US.
45. Groenewcgen-Frankfort, Arrest and Move- anj p]ate ^
inent, 179. ^ jn tjie sjiapC a (Berlin); in die shape
P- 97 46. Line drawings have been published by Pcrrot Qf a Lon (British Museum and Louvre), Contenau,
ct Chipicz, Histoire de l*art dans Vantiquite, n, 143, Manuel, 1304, figure 824. Illustrated London News
and Meissner, Babylonicn und Assyrien, 1, 202. (22 Aug. 1953), 298, figure 17.
47. Loud, Khorsabad, n, plates 32B and 48, nos. 5s# Gordon Loud, Khorsabad, it, plates 49-50-
15-17. 59. See Ludwig Curtius in Miinchener Jahrbilcher P. 10
48. Thorkild Jacobsen and Scton Lloyd, Senna- Jer Hldenden Kunst, vm (1913). 1 The object is in
cherib's Aqueduct at Jerwatt (Chicago, 1935). the Museum at Erlangen. At the top there arc
49. This term refers to a scene viewed from a remnants of what was probably a flat saucer, as on a
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high point, from horseback, for instance. candlestick; and a similar object, with the saucer
complete, was found at Van. Sec C F. Lehmann-
50. Groenewcgen-Frankfort, op. cit., 180.
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jl. The report of such encounters fought within
living memory derives from Sir Leonard Woolley s 4*3^ dcpcndcncc of die Urartian metal-
Arab foreman Hamudi; but I do not remember ^ ’ onthatofPAssyriaissofar-reacliingthat lUs
which of the two told me about them. Julian Huxley ^u X $iblc tQ ^ and dlc rcas0ns he
reported the story and commented upon it in The dec Pnot conviuclng.
Observer, 18 June 1950. On an Assyrian ivory relief g"« * ^ mcntioncd in die
priding now con^t e«h of a bull'* leg promid-
523.
tSyeh 9I %ure 8I‘ But on roya' Sca'S thc VCr_ inS 3 5 "
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