Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

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516. Ivory Openwork Plaque showing Cow
suckling Calf : Arslan Tash.

Fig. 517. Head of Similar
Ivory Cow: Nimrud.

Fig. 518. Suckling Kid. Fragment of
Faience Relief, Knossos.

the North-West Palace. These an
Age of Ashur-nasir-pal of the first
therefore, nearly a century earlier.
The fragments here illustrated

1 Thanks to the kindness of Mr. Bamett of
the Assyrian DepartmentoftheBritish Museum,
who is making a special study of the Nimrud
fragments, I was ahle to look over the very
extensive series of the ivory fragments in
the reserve store of the Museum. A large
number of these belong to the Cow and Calf

Fig. 519. Suckling Calf : Frag-
ment of Ivory Relief, Niiffito.

: generally attributed to the brilliant
half of the Ninth Century B.C., «

for comparison (Figs. 518. y'9) sU

group, framed in a manner similar^ n,ore
Arslan Tash. They are dea yjns of vario«s
than one deposit, containing rem" ^ ^ ^
subjects, but there is no eviden ^u
circumstances of thur diocovtry,

of the ivory stags are also repress