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| Picture No | 11046534 |
| Date | 1957 |
| Description | ILN cover 1957, Assyrian ivory carving at Nimrud |
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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.
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| Source | Illustrated London News, 23rd November 1957 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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