Furniture Fitting

9th-8th century BCE (?)

6.7 cm 4.5 cm

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This thick cylinder of ivory is decorated on the outside. Between two raised bands incised concentric circles are arranged in a zigzag pattern.There are no parallels for the piece in the published material from Assur. The unusual source attributed to the piece by the dealer Ed...

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[Old label: ""Ivory bracelet, found in the Royal tombs at Assur about 1200 B.C.""]; Edgar J. Banks [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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ivory

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