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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 11 (1976)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 11

"Carved Ivory Furniture Panels from Nimrud: A Coherent Subgroup of the North Syrian Style"

Winter, Irene J.
1976
30 pages
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Irene Winter

Irene J. Winter is a professor emerita and William Dorr Boardman professor of fine arts 1988–2021 at Harvard University.

Panel, Ivory, Assyrian
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Furniture plaque carved in relief with warrior holding lotuses, Ivory, Assyrian
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Chair back carved in relief, Ivory, Assyrian
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Furniture plaque carved in relief with standing woman, Ivory, Assyrian
Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE