Furniture fitting Frau im Fenster, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, ivory, glass, carved, cast, ivory and glass, carved and cast, Total: Height: 5.9 cm; Width: 4.2 cm, reliefs, furniture parts, palace, head, face, A woman's head en face, coiffed according to Egyptian fashion, decorated with rich head and ear ornaments, looking down from a rectangular window above a columned balustrade. The hair, falling behind the ears on both sides, ends in curls just below chin height. Above the forehead a piece of jewelry. Between the window and the column balustrade is a well-preserved rectangular glass inlay, iridescent due to the way it rests on the floor. Two column capitals can be seen with widely projecting volutes and leaf overhanging on slender column shafts. The top plate is stepped. The relief is to be supplemented on the left side by the corresponding missing piece of window and a capital. The woman in the window (Assyrian: Kililu sa apati) is one of the most frequent depictions on furniture ornamental ivory. The goddess of love (Astarte) or Hierodule in the service of the goddess of love was attributed apotrophic powers. According to the previous owner, the relief piece comes from Arslan Tash, an Assyrian border fortress on the upper Euphrates. The ivory cut in high relief belongs to furniture fittings. A resting bed (kline) from the 8th/7th century B.C. with such ornamentation was excavated in Arslan Tasch; other associated ornamental fittings can be found in the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. The style of Arslan Tasch's ivories, which some researchers have described as Phoenician, differs from the Assyrian and Syrian groups in its fine pattern, smooth surface treatment and clear Egyptian influences. The latter is usually more awkward in drawing, shows fuller figures and also shows an Egyptian influence.
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