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bibliography and image source: Herrmann, Georgina: Ivories from Room SW 37 Fort Shalmaneser. Ivories from Nimrud IV. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, no. 668.

• museum number: IM65271

• excavation number: ND10320

• provenience: Nimrud (SW 37)

• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: 4.8, length: with tenon 21.8, length: of panel 21.4, thickness: 1.3

• material: ivory

• date: Neo Assyrian (ca. 800 BC)

• description:
Pair of bulls facing right, each attacked by a winged griffin and a lion which is impaled on the bull's horn; reverse side has remains of a tenon on the right, three dowel holes on the top and bottom on reverse side

• status: unknown

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