Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree
Object type: Relief
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: 4.21 x 2.2 x 2.09 in. (10.69 x 5.59 x 5.31 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Equestrian
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1960
Accession year: 1960
Tags: Trees