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Ivory Sphinx from Nimrud
This ivory plaque is virtually complete but burnt (partly black and partly grey). It depicts the bearded head and forequarters of a sphinx, advancing left with head turned outwards. This is one of the rare examples of the combination of Syrian...
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Nimrud Ivory Plaque of a Stylized Palm Tree
This ivory plaque shows a carving of a stylized palm tree. There are tenons at the top and bottom of the plaque. The overall depiction is very similar to a fragment found in Samaria (also housed in the Museum). Excavated by Sir Max Mallowan...
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Ivory Panel with an Egyptian Religious Scene from Nimrud
On a sacred barge with papyrus prows, a crowned sun-disc (with two cobras) rides and appears to arise from the horizon. It is flanked by two Ba birds. On the disc, there is the so-called triple (hmhm) atef crown, flanked by uraei set on a...
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Nimrud Ivory Plaque
Carved ivory plaque of an Egyptian-looking woman. Note the black burn marks. Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th centuries BCE. From Nimrud, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Nimrud Ivory Supine Bull
An exquisitely carved plaque of a supine bull. Note the black burn mark. Probably, this was part of a group which once supported an ivory tray. Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th centuries BCE. From Nimrud, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum...
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Ivory Back Rest From Nimrud
The 6 ivory panels, set within a plane framework, would originally have been mounted on the concave inner surface of a curved wooden support. By analogy with a similar curved back rest from Salamis in Cyprus, it seems likely that this piece...
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Ivory Horse Frontlet from Nimrud
This ivory piece is part of the so-called "equestrian bridle-harness ornaments". It represents the lower part of a hinged frontlet, virtually complete. Most of the hinges and much of the iron pin have survived. A figure of the Egyptian...
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Ivory Writing-Board from Nimrud
This is the outer cover of the ivory writing-boards (6 in number) incised with four lines of Assyrian cuneiform text, giving the title of the astrological script which was a compilation of omens ordered by Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (reigned...
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Dog Figurine from Nimrud
Bronze statuette of a dog, part of the Nimrud dogs, a Neo-Assyrian collection of dog figurines found at Nimrud, currently on display in museums at Baghdad, Iraq; Cambridge, England; New York, America, and Melbourne, Australia. This figurine...
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Glazed Wall Tile from Nimrud
This glazed tile once decorated a wall in one of the Assyrian palaces at Nimrud (Kalhu). From Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian period, 911-609 BCE. (The British Museum, London).