Ivory with Egyptian blue inlay
Iron Age, Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 8th-7th c. BCE (terminus ante quem 612 BCE)
Probably made in Syro-Phoenicia
Found at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu; see on Pleiades)
In the collection of, and photographed on display at, the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
Museum purchase, Gift of The Museum Society Auxiliary
Inv. 1992.36.1
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