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Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree

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Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree

Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Type: Relief
Medium: Ivory
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Culture: Assyrian
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object number: 60.145.3
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1960

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