Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket
Object type: Relief
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: 4.76 x 2.2 x 0.24 in. (12.09 x 5.59 x 0.61 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession year: 1962
Tags: Falcons|Horus