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“Sainst Karo [Athauschc Mitlcihmoc, „7 Tl„. r
XXXXV (iy20), 106-16] claimed a north Syrian 6nn]|7' 1 0m!nou futures arc: long, pointed
ongm for this device. Barnett (Iraq, x„, 39) prefer, those ofTc A*t in “»*» to
ike Karo, Urartu. This is, indeed, more likely than hair shown in ,n l J“h T1 1C,\orsaba‘1
z-r“",d “tr~4t

P- 189 12S
: S'd“7 S,ni*'***** /»"■»''. =n in fa,,
(1942).
xxvil, 2. The hair was sometimes gilded.
129. Journal of Hellenic Studies, lviii (193S) , J3S. Illustrated London News, 8 Aug., i953f
T“3°» 133-70; LX (1940), 2-21. frontispiece.
130. Tins has been demonstrated by R. D. Bar- 139- Barnett, op. cit., 193!}'. a„d plate xxvii
nett Journal ofHellenic Studies, lxviii (194S), 1, n. 4. suggests that they formed pare of a certain kind of
131. AssurnasirpalII; Shalmaneser III: Adadnirari bowl, of which Greek examples in pottery survive.
III; 1 iglathpilesar III; see Iraq, xni (1951), 5,21-4. Similar double figures were found in Rhodes
(Hogarth, Excavations at Ephestts, plates xxx, xxxi,
132. A stool of ivory was found at Zin^irli:
and in Crete, Athenische Mitteilungen, 60-1 (1935-6),
Ausgrahungen in Scndschirli, v, plates 61-3.
plate 84, no. 11).
p. 190 133- Thurcau-Dangin, and others, Arslan Task,
135 ff- 140. Iraq, 11 (1935), plate xxiv, 2.
141. Op. cit., 194 ff. (Barnett).
t I34* R- Barnett, in Iraq, 11, 1S5, suggests
possibly the first half of the eighth century ’ as a 142. Von Oppenheim, Tell Halaf plates viii(a),
ix(a), xxi(b), xxii(a). It also occurs, simplified , on
compromise since lie accepts, as we do not, a ninth-
the reliefs found near Ankara.
century date for the ivories from Arslan Tash and
Samaria. 143. Harold Ingholt, Rapport preliminairc sur p. 15:
sept campagncs de fouilles a Hama en Syrie (Copen­
p. 191 135. R. D. Barnett has pointed out that the Nim­ hagen, 1940), plate xxxiv, 4, 5.
rud ivories in the British Museum include those
found by Loftus in the S.-E. palace and others found 144. Sec also Illustrated London News, 4 Aug.
J95i» 195* figure 24, from Nimrud.
by Layard in the N.-W. palace. He has also shown
145. Iraq, u, 189.
that the first belong probably to the reign of Assur­
nasirpal II, the second to that of Sargon. See Iraq, 146. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
11 (r935)» 179-210. His dating of the Loftus group 1936, 221 ff.; 1937, 89 ff.
is corroborated by its resemblance to the ivories 147. Other pieces possibly belonging to Hazacl’s
from Tell Halaf (von Oppenheim, Tell Halaf bed include turned knobs and capital-like pieces,
(London), plate lix, 2, 3). The recent dis­ used at all times in this type of furniture; further
coveries of Professor Mallowan at Nimrud (Illus­ pieces, not carved but engraved, showing a sun-
trated London News, 28 July and 4 Aug. 1951; disk with two correct uraei but widi a non-Egypt­
ian star and dots in the disk. Furdicr lotus and bud
and 16 Aug. 1952) made him doubt the dis­
borders, a guillochc, and fragmentary figure of a
tinction between a ninth-century and eighth-
century group, since both styles arc represented man, differing from plate 168c, and resembling
among the finds from the well he discovered in the the Egyptian rendering of Syrians, with headband,
N.-W. palace. But the evidence from Tell Halaf is curls, necklace, fringed shawl, and bare feet. The
incontrovertible. The well at Nimrud was used bead *s *n Pro^^c-
from its construction by Assurnasirpal II until the *48- One must remem cr c iat 3 second bed
destruction of the palace at the end of the reign of stoocl beside that o azac . • / TrT T/w ft* d ioj
Sargon. It is natural enough that it contained late 149. Woolley and Barnett, Carcicnusi, , •
pieces (loc. cit. 16 Aug. 1952, frontispiece) as well as and plate 71 £ The ivories were oun m a <
early ones (op. cit., 255, figure 13). The circular in- courtyard near a doorjamb in
Javs in the latter arc characteristic of the early group, century b.c.
At the burnt palace (the S.-E. palace of the Loftus I5o. It is likely enough that there was so ^
„rOUn) at least one head of the later group (known antique furniture in die palace at Samana, w
nmM) - *—I to *»• - a” °f
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