Pannello intarsiato frammenti: Nimrud Avorio da Camera SW37 Fort Shalmaneser entro città assira di Nimrud, Iraq, fotografata nell'Iraq Museum di Baghdad.
3807 x 2204 px | 32,2 x 18,7 cm | 12,7 x 7,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
7 marzo 1983
Ubicazione:
National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Altre informazioni:
Nimrud Ivory from Room SW37 Fort Shalmaneser, the military headquarters within the Assyrian city of Nimrud, northern Iraq, photographed in the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad. Panel fragments decorated in 'champlevé' style with designs excised & filled with inlay. Left (ND13525, Catalogue No. 1184): curved, 3.1cm high x 2.3, with plain ribbed frame at bottom, a uraeus (sacred serpent) crowned by a sun disc; traces of blue quartz-frit. Right (ND13615, Catalogue No. 1191): one lotus flower & part of a bud from a floral frieze, green inlay in calyx, blue bedding in petals, bud & running festoons. Carved ivory plaques & panels decorated many wooden objects such as beds, chairs, jewellery boxes, cup stands, walls & columns. They were collected as gifts, booty & tribute from all over the Assyrian Empire - Egypt, Syria, Phoenicia etc - and, after any gold overlay had been removed, kept in storage 'magazines' at the fort. Most date from the 9th or 8th centuries BC. The Nimrud Ivories have been catalogued & published by Georgina Herrmann for the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (London), Nimrud Ivories Project. The BSAI is now the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (London) (Gertrude Bell Memorial); its ivories & archive are in the British Museum.
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