Furniture Fragment
Inlay
Object Number:
65-3-1
Current Location:
Collections storage
Provenience:
Iraq
Nimrud
Period:
Assyrian
Date Made:
8th century BC
Early Date:
-800
Late Date:
-700
Section:
Near Eastern
Materials:
Ivory
Iconography:
Wedjat Eye
Description:
Horse's cheekpiece with attachment holes. Engraved and inlaid design of wadjet eye with arm holding ram headed sceptre. Traces of blue inlay in eye. Guilloche border.
Credit Line:
Collected by the British School of Archaeology, Iraq
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