Möbel Plakette geschnitzte Relief mit Krieger holding Lotusse. Kultur: Assur. Maße: 11.38 x 2.72 x 0.2 in. (28.91 x 6.91 x 0.51cm). Datum: Ca. 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr.. Diese elfenbeinfarbene Panel wurde in einem Lagerraum im Fort Salmanassar, eine königliche Gebäude an Nimrud, der benutzt wurde, um Beute und Tribut von den Assyrern erfasst, während die militärische Kampagne zu speichern. Wie viele andere Platten aus den gleichen Speicher Zimmer, es war ein Teil von einem Stuhl oder Couch zurück oder das Kopfende eines Bettes. 20 Möbelstücke waren entdeckt in geordnete Zeilen in diesem Zimmer, wo Sie vor dem Dest gespeichert worden waren gestapelt
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Furniture plaque carved in relief with warrior holding lotuses. Culture: Assyrian. Dimensions: 11.38 x 2.72 x 0.2 in. (28.91 x 6.91 x 0.51 cm). Date: ca. 8th century B.C.. This ivory panel was found in a storage room in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. Like many other panels from the same storage room, it was part of a chair or couch back or the headboard of a bed. Twenty pieces of furniture were discovered stacked in orderly rows in this room, where they had been stored before the destruction of the Assyrian palaces in 612 B.C. The decoration of the panel is divided into three sections. At top, a figure with the body of a winged sun disc and a female head holds two blossoms in her outstretched hands. In the center, a bearded male figure wearing a long robe belted at the waist, a hat with an upside-down conical projection on its peak, and elaborately strapped sandals extends both arms to grasp the tendrils of a tall plant. The figure's association with thriving vegetation and with the sun suggests concepts of abundance and fruitfulness connected with the agricultural cycle. In the lower panel, a snarling male lion crouches on top of two rows of scales, perhaps symbolizing a mountainous landscape. Like the other panels from this storage room, this piece is classified as North Syrian in style because of its carving technique; the dynamic composition, in which the image fills the entire frame; and the figure's characteristic facial features, including large eyes and nose, small mouth, full cheeks, and receding chin. Built by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, the palaces and storerooms of Nimrud housed thousands of pieces of carved ivory. Most of the ivories served as furniture inlays or small precious objects such as boxes. While some of them were carved in the same style as the large Assyrian reliefs lining the walls of the Northwest Palace, the majority o
