Furniture element made from a hippopotamus incisor
Object type: Furniture element
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)
Dimensions: 1 in. × 6 3/16 in. × 3/4 in. (2.6 × 15.7 × 1.9 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Ornaments
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967
Accession year: 1967