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Ancient Art Department
Ancient Art Council
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park
San Francisco, CA 94121
Nimrud Ivory Plaque with Bearded Warrior Holding Bucket and Pine Cone
North Syrian, Nimrud, 8th century B.C.
The Museums' selection of Nimrud ivories represents a cross-section of international motifs common to the early 1st millennium B.C. and reflects the cultures of the Near East and Mediterranean world.
Ivory
H 10
Museum purchase, Friends of Ian McKibbin White Fund and the Art Trust Fund
1991.20
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