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Furniture inlay
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician
Neo-Assyrian Period
883–612 B.C.
Findspot: Nimrud
Medium/Technique
Ivory
Dimensions
Height x width: 6 x 7.4 cm (2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number65.921
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsFurniture
DescriptionEgyptian-style plaque with a goddess 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)
(Accession Date: September 22, 1965)