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‘The E[l]amite Ziggurat at Susa, decorated in blue-glazed bricks and crowned with brilliant copper horns, so moved Ashurbanipal, * the conqueror of the Elamites, that he described and illustrated it.’

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*(c650bce)

[669-631bce]

**-- ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 76

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