Inlay Cow Suckling a Calf

9th-8th century BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

10.3 cm 5.3 cm 1.7 cm

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Some of the most elaborate ivory works have been discovered in the Kalhu (present-day Nimrud). These objects were brought from Syrian and Phoenician workshops to the Neo-Assyrian court. Egyptianizing style and Egyptian motifs were quite popular among those artists. Large quant...

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British School of Archaeology in Iraq, by excavation; Walters Art Museum, 1983, by exchange.
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