Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 5 x 4.69 x 0.43 in. (12.7 x 11.91 x 1.09 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Furniture inlaid with carved ivory plaques was highly prized by the Assyrian kings. During the ninth to seventh centuries B.C., vast quantities of luxury goods, often embellished with carved ivory in local, Syrian, and Phoenician styles, accumulated in Assyrian palaces, much of it as booty or tribute
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Openwork furniture plaque, grazing oryx, forest, fronds, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 9th–8th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Assyrian, Ivory, 5 x 4.69 0.43, 12.7 11.91 1.09 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Furniture inlaid, carved ivory, plaques, highly prized, Assyrian kings, ninth, seventh centuries, B.C, vast quantities, luxury goods, embellished, local, Syrian, Phoenician styles, accumulated, palaces, booty, tribute
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