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. 780.
- copyright for image:
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
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• museum number: -
• excavation number: -
• provenience: Nimrud (SW 37)
• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: 11.9, width: 8.8, thickness: 0.8
• material: ivory
• date: Neo Assyrian (ca. 800 BC)
• description:
Stylized tree with two sets of curved branches, upward-curving branches of lower set are missing, flowers growing from the remaining set, buds growing from the base of the trunk where there is a row of scales, eight central petals and the trunk
decorated with chevrons and horizontal and curving ribs.
• status: unknown
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