Ancient Near Eastern Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v ...
Ancient Near Eastern Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v ...
Ancient Near Eastern Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v ...
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1845-54, when Austen Henry Layard<br />
excavated there. He was followed by<br />
William Kennett L<strong>of</strong>tus in 1854-55, and<br />
George Smith in 1873 and 1876, and<br />
three-quarters <strong>of</strong> a century later by Max<br />
E. L. Mallowan, who conducted thirteen<br />
campaigns between 1949 and 1963. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Metropolitan</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> supported eleven<br />
<strong>of</strong> these campaigns, from 1951 to 1963-<br />
its longest and most fruitful involvement in<br />
archaeological research in the <strong>Near</strong> East.<br />
Nimrud has many preserved palaces<br />
and temples built by various Assyrian<br />
kings, each yielding quantities <strong>of</strong> artifacts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Citadel, in the southwest corner, and<br />
the military area called Fort Shalmaneser,<br />
in the southeast, are particularly interesting<br />
because from the palaces, fort, and<br />
wells were recovered the most extraordinary<br />
finds at the site, the Nimrud ivories:<br />
thousands <strong>of</strong> carvings in relief and in the<br />
round, depicting battle, ritual, and genre<br />
scenes, executed in the styles <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Assyrian and neighboring cultures, in<br />
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