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Ivory Openwork Plaque with Palm Leaves in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008

Ivory Openwork Plaque with Palm Leaves in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008
Openwork Plaque with Palm Leaves
Ivory
Syria, probably Arslan Tash
Neo-Assyrian period, Phoenician style, 9th-8th century BC

Accession # 57.80.14

The tenons above and below the leaves would have been used to attach this ivory to a piece of wooden furniture.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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