Furniture plaque carved in relief with a male figure grasping a tree; winged sun disc above, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 10 1/2 x W. 4 1/2 x Th. 5/16 in. (26.7 x 11.4 x 0.8 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, In contrast to the grand, stylized reliefs that flanked the walls of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud are the delicate ornamental ivories that once adorned royal furniture. Ivory, prized throughout the ancient world, was used extensively at the time of the Assyrian Empire (ca
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