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Furniture element

ca. 18th century BCE
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Furniture element
  • Period: Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony
  • Date: ca. 18th century BCE
  • Geography: Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük
  • Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony
  • Medium: Ivory
  • Dimensions: 1.1 x 1.71 x 0.13 in. (2.79 x 4.34 x 0.33 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936
  • Object Number: 36.70.37a1
  • Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art
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