The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Openwork plaque with an oryx eating a plant beside a tree

Openwork plaque with an oryx eating a plant beside a tree

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 406

Provenance

1957, excavated by Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1958, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
See also
Who
Assyrian (462)
What
Sculpture (23,287)

Bone (6,320)

Ivory (5,381)

Reliefs (3,130)

Plaques (2,350)
Where
Asia (68,010)

Iraq (2,495)

Nimrud (315)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (22,989)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,167)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mesopotamia, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.