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. 795.
- copyright for image:
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
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• museum number: IM65291
• excavation number: ND10369
• provenience: Nimrud (SW 37)
• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: with tenons 11.0, width: 5.1, thickness: 1.0
• material: ivory
• date: Neo Assyrian (ca. 800 BC)
• description:
Stylized tree with one pair of upward-curving and two pairs of downward-curving branches with fronds growing from them and ribs between them, flowers growing from the trunk and petals in the center; tenons on top and bottom with horizontal lines on the
front of the top tenon and a fitterŐs mark on the front of the bottom tenon.
• status: unknown
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