Furniture plaque: deer, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 1.5 x 2.5 x 1.44 in. (3.81 x 6.35 x 3.66 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This piece belongs to a group of five carved ivory plaques probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. Originally, they formed the composition of a falcon with outstretched wings grasping antelopes in its extended talons
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Furniture plaque, deer, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca, 18th century B.C, Anatolia, Acemhöyük, Old, Ivory, hippopotamus, 1.5 x 2.5 1.44, 3.81 6.35 3.66 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, piece, belongs, group, five carved, ivory, plaques, site, palace, central Anatolia, Originally, formed, composition, falcon, outstretched wings, grasping, antelopes, extended talons
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