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Orient und die friihgriechische
fimips if uiv from the other pieces. At Arslan 164. Poulscn, Dcr
Tash the K'"Z taq,m, plate’xui, 1. It is in keeping with the

117 torime ofits founder, Sargon (721-705 b.c.). late date of this - the Layard group - of Nimrod
W- ,-Want to remember that the ivories from ivories that this figure wears a crown of rosettes, like
Samaria may find an analogy at Nimrud, where no the kings of Malatya and Sakjcgcuzi deplete at t ic
objects antedating Sargon wcrc found in the end of the eighth century B.c. See above p. 184.
north-west palace, although it was founded by 166. Illustrated London News, 16 Aug. I953>
Assumasirpal II. This was pointed out by Barnett colour plate opp. p. 256.
(Iraq, it, 185) and confirmed by Mallowan on the 167. Op. cit., figure 19.
evidence of his own excavations there (Iraq, xni, 3)- 168. Crowfoot, loc. cit.
151. The same convention for the rendering of 169. Murray, Smith, and Walters, Excavations in
the folds in the neck occurs in figures in the round Cyprus (London, 1900), 10, figure 18.
of bulls supporting an ivory tray at Nimrud (Illus­
170. The discussion by Herbig and Zimmern in
trated London News, 22 Aug., 1953> 398> figures 13-
Oricntalistischc Literaturzcitung, xxx-xxxi (1927—
16). 8), is conveniently summarized by Barnett, in
152. Contenau, Manueld*Archeologic Orientale 111, Iraq, II, 182 and 203.
figure S40; Iraq, xni, plates i, ii, and iii. Cf. also
171. History, 1, 199-
Illustrated London News, 4 Aug. 1951,195, figure 25.
172. R. D. Barnett in Iraq, n, 198-210, an attempt
153. The three objects arc figured side by side in
made with a full realization ofits tentative character.
Journal of Hellenic Studies, lxviu, plate ii.
154. A different version of the theme, without 173. Iraq, n, plate xxiii, 4. p. i95
the goddess, was found at Nimrud: Iraq, 11, plate 174. Journal of Hellenic Studies, lxvih, plate I.
xxiv. 175. Thurcau-Dangin, Arslan Tash, plate xxxii.
155. Loud, Khorsahad, n, plate 52, nos. 38 and 39 176.1 have not discussed the ivories discovered in
seem to render the same subject. Here the figures the British Museum excavations at Ephesus, since
wear wigs which in Egypt would mark them as these are not clearly connected with any group of
women. Near Eastern ivories and seem to me to belong to
156. Iraq, xni, plate vii; Ausgrabungen in Send- provincial East Greek art entirely. But see Barnett,
schirli, v, plates 66-7. Op. cit., plate 68, i (=Platc in Journal of Hellenic Studies, lxviii, 1-25 and P.
69(a)) is an ivory in purely Egyptian style; plate 68 f Jacobsthal, op. cit., lxxi (1950), 85-95.
(= Plate 69(1)) is purely Mesopotamian. These set 177. References in Dussaud, Civilizations pre-
off the Phoenician character of the pieces we arc helleniques (Paris, 1914)* 308 If. Dussaud claims a
here discussing. Cypriot origin for the bronzes and ivories we call
157. It occurs also at Samaria: J. and G. Crow­ Phoenician (op. cit., 304-26), but since he wrote, the
foot, Early Ivories from Samaria, plate vi, 2. influence of the Aegean on the Asiatic mainland
158. G. Loud, Khorsahad, n, plates 52-4. None of has appeared in a new light and the motifs called
them is complete, but all the elements arc preserved, ‘ Grcco-Chypriote ’ (312ft'.) occur elsewhere, too.
if one takes the group as a whole. A late geometric Nor was Cyprus ever important enough to account
vase (Kunze, Krctischc Bronzcrcliefs, plate 55c) for the wide distribution of these goods,
shows the cloth between the forepaws of the sphinx 178. David Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria p. 196
and is dated about 750 b.c.
and Babylonia, n, §186.
159. Thurcau-Dangin et al., Arslan Tash, plates
xxx-xxxi. 179- Dussaud, loc. cit., 321 ff.

p. 197
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plate 84, 1, which resembles the nrnf.lJ * * predominantly Egyptian and Assyrian decora-
from Arslan Tal/bm i V 1 tl0n SpCCial St>'lc’ but ^ Vision docs not
wears a sun-disk on its head fr ‘° ^ tcnabIc' S- Barnett on the north-west
'• 194 ’*3. Crowfoot- My Ivoriesfrom Smaria, pllte MaCC W ^ IS5‘
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