TREASURES OF IVORY
JERUSALEM, June 16. Beautiful ivory panels, dating from the year 800 B.C., and depicting lotus buds and flowers, strange animals and celestial beings from the Egyptian Pantheon, have been discovered at Samaria, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel. The site of this discovery leaves no doubt that these ivories belonged to the "House of Ivory" mentioned in tbs Bible (I Kings, 22: 39), for the inscription carved on one of them bears the name of Hazael, King of Damascus, 850-800 B.C.
One panel shows a fight between a bull and a lion, in relief. Others show cheruhs and sphinxes. A third repnesents the personification of eternity. These discoveries, which are due to the joint work of British and American archaeologists, are of the greatest importance in illustrating the civilisation of the period. The passage in the Book of Kings referred to reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Ah'ab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities which he built, are they not .written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings ofllsrael?"
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 301, 15 August 1932, Page 2
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