Ivory plaque of a cow and calf among papyrus plants
On display
Details
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Title
Ivory plaque of a cow and calf among papyrus plants
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Associated place
Nimrud (Fort Shalmaneser, ND11,194) (place of excavation) -
Date
880 BC - 710 BC -
Material and technique
ivory
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.6 cm (height)
12.6 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1962.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East
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Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1962.602
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Further reading
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 7 on p. 14, illus. p. 14 fig. 7
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