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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: 7.8 x 9 cm (3 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number65.918
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsFurniture
DescriptionFound in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud. Egyptianizing ivory inlay plaque showing a sphinx wearing the Egyptian double crown trampling a fallen enemy.
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, 22 September 1965.
(Accession Date: September 22, 1965)
(Accession Date: September 22, 1965)