Plaque avec tête falcon Re portant la couronne de l'Égypte supérieure et inférieure ca.8th–7th siècle av. J.-C. Assyrian cette plaque d'ivoire trapézoïdale incurvée a été trouvée dans une salle de stockage à fort Shalmaneser, un bâtiment royal à Nimrud qui a été utilisé pour stocker l'orée et l'hommage recueillis par les Assyriens pendant la campagne militaire.Elle représente une figure avec la tête d'un falcon agenouillée avec des coudes pliés et des paumes maintenues vers l'extérieur, face à un arbre stylisé à droite.La figure porte une sorte de coiffure égyptienne appelée perruque de lapet, surmontée d'une version de la double couronne égyptienne qui a un élément curled ajouté à la TH

• Contributeur: MET/BOT / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2HHA30G
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• Dimensions: 3376 x 3776 px | 28,6 x 32 cm | 11,3 x 12,6 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 22 janvier 2022

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Plaque with falcon-headed Re wearing crown of Upper and Lower Egypt ca. 8th–7th century B.C. Assyrian This curved, trapezoidal ivory plaque was found in a storage room in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. It depicts a figure with the head of a falcon kneeling with elbows bent and palms held outwards, facing a stylized tree to the right. The figure wears a type of Egyptian headdress called a lappet wig, topped by a version of the Egyptian double crown which has a curled element added at the front. He is dressed in a belted garment with short skirt and loose, short sleeves, decorated with a beaded border, and is barefoot. The stylized tree is made up of a vertical trunk topped by a palmette and a curving branch rising from the root, topped by a bud; presumably the other half of the tree would have been symmetrical, and was depicted on the adjoining plaque to the right when this plaque was still in its original setting. Atop the palmette is an element combining a wide Egyptian necklace called a broad collar and an isolated head, visible only in the edge of the headdress represented by parallel vertical lines and part of a sun disc. Like the tree, this element would have been completed on the adjoining plaque, which is now missing, but enough remains to suggest that it was an aegis, an image of the head and shoulders of a deity. An ivory aegis of a feline goddess from Nimrud, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum (62.269.10), gives an idea of how the complete element might have looked. Carved ivory pieces such as this were widely used in the production of elite furniture and luxury objects during the early first millennium B.C., and could be overlaid with gold foil or inlaid to create a dazzling effect of gleaming surfaces and bright colors. This piece is one of many elaborately carved ivories with motifs adapted from Egyptian art that have been attributed