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Openwork furniture plaque with ram-headed sphinx
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Fletcher Fund, 1957
57.80.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age

Edited by *Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff**, &* Yelena Rakic

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Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1962
62.269.3
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Relief fragment: cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 704–681 BCE
Assyrian
Gypsum alabaster
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932
32.143.18
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a male figure slaying a griffin
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1961
61.197.11
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a male figure grasping a tree; winged sun disc above
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1959
59.107.6
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Head of a male or female figure
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory, Egyptian Blue
Rogers Fund, 1962
62.269.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Openwork furniture plaque with ram-headed sphinx
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Fletcher Fund, 1957
57.80.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1961
61.197.1
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Openwork furniture plaque with the head of a feline
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1962
62.269.10
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a winged, falcon-headed sphinx
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967
67.22.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Openwork furniture plaque with a "woman at the window"
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund 1959
59.107.18
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Furniture plaque carved in relief with lion-headed figure
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1961
61.197.12
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Relief panel
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 883–859 BCE
Assyrian
Gypsum alabaster
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932
32.143.6
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Furniture plaques carved in relief with animal combat
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1959
59.107.2a, b
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold rosette with the head of a griffin
Archaic
ca. 630–620 BCE
Greek, Rhodian ?
Gold
Rogers Fund, 1912
12.229.24
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Terracotta krater with lid surmounted by a small hydria
Cesnola Painter
Geometric
ca. 750–740 BCE
Greek, Euboean
Terracotta
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
74.51.965
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ostracon with Pharaoh Spearing a Lion and a Royal Hymn on its Back
New Kingdom, Ramesside
ca. 1186–1070 B.C.
Limestone, ink
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
26.7.1453
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silver-gilt bowl
Archaic
ca. 725–675 BCE
Cypriot
Gilt silver
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
74.51.4554
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vessel with six animal friezes
Iron Age II
ca. 10th–8th century BCE
Iran
Bronze
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1964
64.257.1a, b
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)
Chigi Group
Protocorinthian
ca. 625 BCE
Greek, Corinthian
Terracotta
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
1972.118.138
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fan or fly-whisk handle in the form of four female figures
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory, gold leaf
Rogers Fund, 1952
52.23.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Editors | Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic
Publisher | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year of Publication | 2014

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