Title: Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree
Object type: Relief
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: 4.21 x 2.2 x 2.09 in. (10.69 x 5.59 x 5.31 cm)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1960
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Trees