Openwork furniture plaque with the head of a feline, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 2.09 x 1.89 x 0.94 in. (5.31 x 4.8 x 2.39 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture-Inscribed, Found in a storeroom at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign, this piece depicts the frontal face of a feline wearing a beaded wesekh broad collar flanked by two rising sun-disc crowned uraei (mythical, fire-spitting serpents)
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Openwork furniture plaque, head, feline, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 9th–8th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Assyrian, Ivory, 2.09 x 1.89 0.94, 5.31 4.8 2.39 cm, Ivory/Bone-Sculpture-Inscribed, storeroom, Fort Shalmaneser, royal building, store booty, tribute collected, Assyrians, military campaign, piece depicts, frontal face, feline wearing, beaded wesekh broad, collar, flanked, two rising, sun-disc, crowned, uraei, mythical, fire-spitting serpents
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