Furniture plaque: wing of a hawk, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 4 3/8 x 2 1/4 x 3 13/16 in. (11.1 x 5.7 x 9.7 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, wing, hawk, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca, 18th century B.C, Anatolia, Acemhöyük, Old, Ivory, hippopotamus, 4 3/8 x 2 1/4 3 13/16, 11.1 5.7 9.7 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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