Openwork furniture plaque with sphinx striding through a floral landscape, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 8.74 x 4.53 x 0.75 in. (22.2 x 11.51 x 1.91 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Found in a storeroom at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was probably used to store tribute and booty collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign, this fragmentary plaque carved in the openwork technique depicts a winged, leonine animal, probably a sphinx, striding to the right
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Openwork furniture plaque, sphinx striding, floral landscape, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 9th–8th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Assyrian, Ivory, 8.74 x 4.53 0.75, 22.2 11.51 1.91 cm, Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, storeroom, Fort Shalmaneser, royal building, store tribute, booty collected, Assyrians, military campaign, fragmentary plaque carved, openwork technique, depicts, winged, leonine animal, sphinx, striding, right
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