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Furniture inlay

Near Eastern, Levantine, Syro-Phoenician
Neo-Assyrian Period
883–612 B.C.
Object Place: Nimrud

Medium/Technique Ivory
Dimensions Height x width: 4.8 x 4 cm (1 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number65.920
ClassificationsFurniture

DescriptionFound in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud. Egyptianizing plaque showing an Egyptian king wearing the double crown before a "sacred tree."
ProvenanceFrom Fort Shalmaneser in Nimrud, Room S.W. 37. By 1965: excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 1965: Purchased from the British School of Archaeology by the MFA.
(Accession Date: September 22, 1965)