Oh, you pretty thing
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I can’t stop thinking about this little chunk of ivory. I am presently in the north of Iraq, en route to the ancient sites of Hadra and Nimrud, and spent today admiring the breathtaking treasures of the Assyrian empire, whose iconography ran to vast winged bulls carved in stone and covered in cuneiform descriptions of the achievements of their kings. They are housed in the cold, unlit museum of Mosul, where there was an IED outside this morning and where the curators apologised for the lack of light and electricity in this ancient city where the modern war has not yet gone away.
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