Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket

Period:

Neo-Assyrian

Date:

ca. 9th–8th century B.C.

Geography:

Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)

Culture:

Assyrian

Medium:

Ivory

Dimensions:

4.76 x 2.2 x 0.24 in. (12.09 x 5.59 x 0.61 cm)

Classification:

Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed

Credit Line:

Rogers Fund, 1962

Accession Number:

62.269.8

 

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