front view
- 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. 771.
- copyright for image:
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
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• museum number: -
• excavation number: ND13624
• provenience: Nimrud (SW 37)
• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: with tenon 6.7, height: of panel 6.0, width: 4.4, thickness: 1.0
• material: ivory
• date: Neo Assyrian (ca. 800 BC)
• description:
Bottom of a stylized tree with two sets of four upward-curving branches, flowers and a trunk decorated with chevrons and horizontal ribs; tenon on the bottom, dowel holes through the curved branches, the reverse side has faint striations a fitterŐs mark
in the form of two letters and the beginning of a third.
• status: unknown
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