Furniture plaque carved in relief with bulls and tree ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Assyrian This carved ivory plaque was found in a storage room in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. It depicts a pair of bulls flanking a small tree, each nibbling at a leaf, framed above and below by a plain flat border. The five branches of the tree are arranged symmetrically and the leaves or fronds are decorated with horizontal ridges. Each bull’s ribs are defined by vertical parallel lines, and similar line
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Furniture plaque carved in relief with bulls and tree ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Assyrian This carved ivory plaque was found in a storage room in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. It depicts a pair of bulls flanking a small tree, each nibbling at a leaf, framed above and below by a plain flat border. The five branches of the tree are arranged symmetrically and the leaves or fronds are decorated with horizontal ridges. Each bull’s ribs are defined by vertical parallel lines, and similar line