Furniture plaque: incised griffin, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory, 1.61 x 1.04 in. (4.09 x 2.64 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This fragment belongs to a group of carved ivories, mostly furniture elements, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. Incised on the small flat piece of ivory is a delicate rendering of a griffin, a mythological creature that combines the body of a lion with the wings and head of a bird of prey
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Furniture plaque, incised griffin, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca, 18th century B.C, Anatolia, Acemhöyük, Old, Ivory, 1.61 x 1.04, 4.09 2.64 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, fragment, belongs, group, carved ivories, mostly furniture, elements, site, palace, central Anatolia, Incised, small flat, piece, ivory, delicate rendering, griffin, mythological creature, combines, body, lion, wings, head, bird, prey
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