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Fragment of Egyptian blue on mud from the Palace of Sargon the Great at Khorsabad, Assyria

Fragment of Egyptian blue on mud from the Palace of Sargon the Great at Khorsabad, Assyria

Assyrian

The pigment is Egyptian Blue. It was applied to a mud plaster which had first been given a white priming coat of impure lime whitewash, consisting of unburned lime chalk.

Egyptian blue pigment applied to mud plaster

Neo-Assyrian period

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