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Elephant of Yusuf al-Bahili

Elephant of Yusuf al-Bahili
dalbera from Paris, France / CC BY 2.0 · resizedfile

The elephant of Yūsuf al-Bāhilī or Eléphant de Charlemagne, once regarded as one of the Charlemagne chessmen and so known as the Chessman of Charlemagne, is an ivory sculpture, possibly originally part of a chess set and probably carved in Sindh in the 9th century AD. It has been in Paris since at least the 16th century.

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