caa a22 4500 386386625 CHVBK 20180307112100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/4200298 doi S0021088900004538 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/4200298 Herrmann Georgina The Nimrud Ivories, 1: The Flame and Frond School [Elektronische Daten] [Georgina Herrmann] The volume of ivories found at Nimrud is overwhelming. Nevertheless, this very quantity presents us with unique opportunities to investigate the ivory trade in the early first millennium B.C. It allows us to gather together groups of similar styles and thus, if it can be accepted that a coherent style-group was probably the output of a specific "school” of carving, to define the production of different schools. The principal purpose of this article is to try to reconstruct the output of one of these schools, the flame and frond school, which belongs to the North Syrian tradition of ivory-carving. After bringing together some of its products, another aim is to suggest the school's original location and the time of its floruit. Only a minority of the ivories found at Nimrud were in the easily recognizable Assyrian style, best known from the wall reliefs. The remainder were carved in a variety of styles and techniques and were almost certainly brought to Nimrud as booty or tribute. As early as 1912 Poulsen suggested that these ivories could be divided into two groups, the Phoenician and the North Syrian. The criteria he used to distinguish them were the absence of Egyptian elements on North Syrian ivories and the relationship between North Syrian ivories and reliefs found at Syrian sites such as Carchemish, Zincirli, Maras and Tell Halaf. Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1989 Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 85-109 0021-0889 51<85 1989 51 IRQ https://doi.org/10.2307/4200298 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/4200298 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Herrmann Georgina NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 85-109 0021-0889 51<85 1989 51 IRQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge