Question
Answer the following about niello, a black alloy of sulfur that was often used for metalwork and inlaying, for 10 points each.
[10m] A Mycenaean shaft grave was the site of a dagger inlaid with niello that depicts one of these events. In an Assyrian artwork made of alabaster, three registers of low relief show the title figure riding a chariot during one of these events.
ANSWER: lion hunt [accept The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal; accept Lion Hunt Dagger; accept lionesses in place of “lions”; prompt on hunting or equivalents by asking “hunting what animals?”]
[10e] Niello was extensively used in Anglo-Saxon metalwork, like the Fuller Brooch unearthed at this site. King Rædwald (“RAD-wold”) may be the dedicatee of the ship burial unearthed at this East Anglian site.
ANSWER: Sutton Hoo
[10h] Niello inlay was used for a brass baptistère (“bah-tee-STAIR”) from this empire that was used to baptize Louis XIII. Venetian glass was greatly influenced by the enameled and gilded glass created by this empire.
ANSWER: Mamluk Sultanate [or Mamluks; or Salṭanat al-Mamālīk; accept Mamluk Egypt; reject “Egypt”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 16.50 | 80% | 75% | 10% |
Data
| Arizona State | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ottawa | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |