ILN cover 1957, Assyrian ivory carving at Nimrud

Front cover of the Illustrated London News, 23rd November 1957. A god or prince plucking the flowering lotus: one of a series of superb ivories found in a hitherto untouched Assyrian palace at Nimrud. The ivory was one of those found in the 1957 excavations at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, conducted by Professor M. E. L. Mallowan, in a new site named by the excavators Fort Shalmaneser

Assyria Assyrian Conducted Excavations Finds Hitherto Iraq Ivories Lotus Mallowan Nimrud Plucking Shalmaneser Superb Untouched

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