Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree
Unknown Artist
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
4.21 x 2.2 x 2.09 in. (10.69 x 5.59 x 5.31 cm)
Classification
Ivory/Bone-Equestrian
Culture & Period
Assyrian · Neo-Assyrian
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.145.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Trees