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Description The Urartu kingdom imported ivory (from elephants and hippopotamuses) from India, Nubia and Egypt, but most of all from Nothern Syria (where elephants were living at the time), together with artisans able to work it. It was used to produce decorative elements inserted in furniture, luxury objects (such as combs, seals and perfume boxes) and ritual offerings to temples (such as thrones, daggers and swords). The artisans worked in royal workshops, established in the palaces; their production followed the Urartian iconography, with plenty North-Syrian stylistic influence (more than in e.g. metalworking, which was fully indigenous).
Date 6 April 2016, 12:11 (according to Exif data)
Source Reconstruction of an Urartian tripod stand used for burning incense and for illumination decorated with lions made of ivory, 8th century BC, from Altintepe, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Author Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany

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