Furniture plaque carved in relief with a griffin in a floral landscape, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 3 1/16 x W. 2 3/8 x Th. 3/8 in. (7.8 x 6.1 x 1 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed, A griffin, a hybrid creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body and tail of a lion, faces right and extends its beak upwards to nibble on the top of a tripartite palmette tree in this fragmentary low-relief plaque
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Furniture plaque carved, relief, griffin, floral landscape, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 9th–8th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Assyrian, Ivory, H, 3 1/16 x W, 2 3/8 Th, 3/8, 7.8 6.1 1 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed, hybrid creature, head, wings, eagle, body, tail, lion, faces right, extends, beak upwards, nibble, top, tripartite palmette, tree, fragmentary low-relief, plaque
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