In addition, storehouses filled with actual objects were discovered at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, capital of the expanding Assyrian empire in the 9th - 8th centuries BCE. The high value of ivory carvings as objects of prestige and royal emblems is corroborated by the Bible, albeit in a mainly negative way, and also by Assyrian royal inscriptions reporting ivory objects among the booty and tribute from various Levantine kingdoms. Their imagery is indebted to the Late Bronze Age and linked to royal ideology. These small works of art are of extraordinary workmanship, carved in a variety of techniques often finished with colorful glass inlays and/or gold overlays. The production of ivory objects had an old tradition in the Levant with a high point in the Late Bronze Age and reaching its peak in the 9th - 8th centuries BCE.
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