Iron Age, Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 9th-7th c. BCE (terminus ante quem 612 BCE)
Probably made in Syro-Phoenicia
Found at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu; see on Pleiades), in Fort Shalmaneser (Pleiades)
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
In the collection of, and photographed on display at, the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
Museum purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund
Inv. 1980.54.1
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