Openwork furniture plaque with a cow suckling a calf, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 1.73 x 3.19 x 0.59 in. (4.39 x 8.1 x 1.5 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This fragmentary plaque depicts a cow suckling a calf. Carved in the openwork technique, characteristic of the Phoenician style, the lower legs of both animals do not survive. The cow’s raised, incised eyebrow accentuates an originally inlaid eye
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Openwork furniture plaque, cow suckling, calf, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 9th–8th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Assyrian, Ivory, 1.73 x 3.19 0.59, 4.39 8.1 1.5 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, fragmentary, plaque, depicts, Carved, openwork technique, characteristic, Phoenician style, lower legs, animals do, survive, cow, raised, incised eyebrow, accentuates, originally inlaid, eye
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