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“In March 2011, the British Museum purchased one third of the Mallowan ivories (comprising 1,000 complete ivories and 5,000 fragments) from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq for £1.17 million, following a public fundraising campaign that raised £750,000 in six months, and with the support of grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund. This is the second most expensive purchase by the British Museum since the end of the Second World War.”

>> This is most probably a huge money laundering operation. And they kept these artifacts for so long without making a single payment to the Iraqi people.

“In addition to the purchase, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq has also donated another third of its collection to the British Museum in recognition of the storage of the collection by the museum over the previous 24 years. It is anticipated that the remaining third of the collection will be returned to Iraq sometime in the future. A selection of the ivories will be put on display at the British Museum from 14 March 2011.”

>> How noble and kind of them! Let’s see how long Iraq has to wait for “some” of the pieces to be returned to it. I bet (((they))) kept the “important” pieces and returning to Iraq the “none important” pieces. It’s all about Atlantis in the end.

“Oates (1957-1963)

The largest single ivory find was made between 1957–1963 when a British School team led by David Oates discovered a room at the Nimrud palace that was dubbed the "ivory room", which had apparently served as the main storage centre for ivory objects amassed by the Assyrian kings. Subsequent excavations by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities unearthed still more ivories.

Other discoveries

In recent years excavations by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities have unearthed more ivories.

Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions

A number of the ivories contain Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions – a few contain a number of words, and many more contain single letters. Some of these were found in the mid-nineteenth century by Layard and Loftus (in particular a knob inscribed "property of Milki-ram " [lmlkrm]), and more were found in 1961 by Mallowan and Oates. Of the latter, the most significant finds were excavated in "Fort Shalmaneser" in the southeast of the Nimrud site. Alan Millard published a series of these in 1962; the code "ND" is the standard excavation code for "Nimrud Documents":

• ND 10151 - a 9cm label with three letters

• ND 10359 - a triangular plaque from a harness, with three letters

• ND 8184 - a curved strip, with six letters, and further smaller fragments

• ND 10150 - the most detailed inscription, on a fragment 9 x 5 cm, with three lines of fragmented text. This is also known as TSSI I 6, having been published in Gibson's Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions

• ND 10304 - an inscribed griffin, with five letters

• ND 10303 - an inscribed griffin, with three letters”

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>>15312315

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“They have been compared to the Arslan Tash ivory inscription and the Ur Box inscription.”

>> See how (((they))) don’t like to use the word Phoenician even to point these letters are Phoenician. Aramean just like Canaanite is Phoenician, just from a different generation. As we’ve seen before, the Phoenician letters or inscriptions were not just on the back, but on the fitting parts as well. This is to recognize to which workshop or craftsman these belonged to = the signature. And in the same time it’s to know which part fitted where = assembling purpose. Sometimes we have both together on one plate, sometimes none of them, and sometimes one of them.

“Collections

Ivories from Nimrud are held at a number of institutions across the world:

• British Museum, London, England: 6,000 pieces excavated by Mallowan which were formerly held at the British Institute for the Study of Iraq; as well as a number of pieces from other excavations.

• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 28 pieces from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

• National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

• The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. This museum houses about 30 pieces, which were excavated by Sir Max Mallowan. All of them are contained within 2 large display cases.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

• Cleveland Museum of Art.

• Erbil Civilization Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. The museum houses 3 plaques, which were also excavated by Sir Max Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 CE. All of these plaques are on display in Hall 2 of the Museum.

• University of Melbourne, Australia: 3 pieces excavated by Mallowan.

• The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco has a group of pieces.

Catalogues

The Nimrud Ivories are being published in a series of scholarly catalogues. Many of these are available free online from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI).”

>> Well anons, now you are acquainted with the Phoenician Ivories. Next, I’m going to put for you pictures of them, comment when necessary of course. I’ve regrouped the ivories by theme. And, when I have more than 5 pictures of one theme, I’m going to put the page number of the page as I usually do, but If necessary, I’m also going to add next to the line of the page the letter A and numbers next to it as in = Annex 1, 2, 3 etc. I’m doing it this way because I have more than one picture to attach to one page and only have room for 5.

When you see the ivories, you will understand why the Bloodlines were so interested in them = they are an incredible collection of the Sebetti clan warriors. A very rare find. These are simply marvelous pieces.

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