"By the late Early Dynastic era, as references to ivory figurines in the pre-Sargonic texts from Lagash attest, ivory objects had begun to reach southern Mesopotamia. While these, in theory, could have come from either Africa or the Indus region, it is generally believed that the ivory was of Indian origin for the earliest representation of an elephant in Mesopotamia, ... is definitely of the Indian as opposed to the African country. Third millennium representations of elephants in Mesopotamia are, however, extremely rare and aside from the Tell Asmar seal just mentioned none of the other elephants can be taken as confirmed [… but ...] ivory was certainly reaching the area."
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About ivory in Early post-2500 BCE. Mesopotamian Civilization - The Material Foundations. Potts, D.T. The Athlone Press (Athlone Publications in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies), London, 1997. page 260 Quoted in [https://talageri.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-elephant-and-proto-indo-european.html
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