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Summary
Decorative Plaque: Man; and Griffin in Combat
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Title
Decorative Plaque: Man; and Griffin in Combat
Object type
Ivory
Description
This small plaque was executed in the Phoenician style with symmetrical compositions, elongated figural proportions, and Egyptian subjects and motifs. Examples have been found throughout the Middle East, but thousands come from Nimrud where most were excavated in the storerooms of a military arsenal built by King Shalmaneser II (858-824 bc). When the Nimrud palace was sacked in the 7th century bc, these ivories were thrown into a well, where Sir Max Mallowan (the husband of Agatha Christie) discovered them in 1951. The monumental wall relief (1943.246) was found at the same Assyrian palace at Nimrud.
Date
900-800 BC
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 6.5 x 3.9 cm (2 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
Native name
Cleveland Museum of Art
Location
Cleveland, United States of America
Coordinates
41° 30′ 32″ N, 81° 36′ 42″ W
Established
1913 (Officially opened in 1916)
Website
www.clevelandart.org
Authority file
: Q657415
VIAF: 125472356
ISNI: 0000000419367873
ULAN: 500209693
LCCN: n78087650
NLA: 35029027
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Accession number
1968.45
Place of creation
Phoenician, Iraq, Nimrud, 9th-8th Century BC
Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Source/Photographer
https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.45
Licensing
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Captions
Decorative plaque depicting a fighting of man and griffin; 900–800 BC; Nimrud ivories. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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