The relatively few Assyrian ivories found at Nimrud are decorated with subjects known to us from the bas-reliefs of the Assyrian palaces. Carved by an incised line or in low relief are scenes of warfare, processions, and divinities approaching the sacred tree. Simpler animal and plant designs known in Assyrian glyptic art (art of or relating to engraving or carving especially on precious stones)and ceramics also occur on these ivories, which were produced mostly in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C.

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