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Hogarth, David G.; Smith, Cecil Harcourt [Contr.]
Excavations at Ephesus: the archaic Artemisia: Text — London, 1908

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The Ivory Statuettes. 185

Egypt ; and in this connection it is significant that specimens have been found
both at Naukratis and Daphnae.

The latest date usually assigned to the Sargonid art represented by the
Ximrud discoveries is the latter part of the eighth century B.C. I see no reason
why this date should not suit the Artemision ivories. The Minoan influence
exhibited in some of the Ximrud objects [e.g. pi. xxix., 1 and 5) is perhaps
more direct than anything of the kind among the Artemision treasure, though
there also (e.g. in some of the gold plaques) this inheritance is clearly traceable.
Per contra, we have the scarab of Psammetichos I. (666-612 B.C.), which is
usually accepted as a basis for dating the contents of the Polledrara tomb. But
even supposing that the earliest objects from Cameiros (which produced another
of these scarabs) and Polledrara must be assigned to the second half of the
seventh century, I see no reason why the Ephesus ivories should not be at least
half a century earlier.



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