Openwork furniture plaque with sphinx striding through a floral landscape, ca. 9th–8th century

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Openwork furniture plaque with sphinx striding through a floral landscape, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century , Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, x x in. ( x x cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Found in a storeroom at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was probably used to store tribute and booty collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign, this fragmentary plaque carved in the openwork technique depicts a winged, leonine animal, probably a sphinx, striding to the right

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Size: 4172px × 4462px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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