Plaque de meuble sculptée en relief avec deux sphinx à tête en forme de bélier admores ca.9th–8th Century B.C. Assyrien deux sphinces de couchant et d'addores (couchées et dos-à-dos) sont sculptées en faible relief et fixées à l'intérieur de cadres minces sur cette plaque étroite et rectangulaire.Cette pièce a été trouvée dans un grand entrepôt de fort Shalmaneser, un bâtiment royal à Nimrud qui a probablement été utilisé pour stocker l'hommage et le butin recueillis par les Assyriens pendant la campagne militaire.À l'origine, il était probablement utilisé comme incrustation pour décorer un meuble en bois.Un adhésif a probablement facilité la fixation de l'ivoire

• Contributeur: MET/BOT / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2HH5NT4
• Taille du fichier: 26,6 MB (651,4 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4000 x 2321 px | 33,9 x 19,7 cm | 13,3 x 7,7 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 21 janvier 2022

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Furniture plaque carved in relief with two addorsed, ram-headed sphinxes ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Assyrian Two couchant and addorsed (reclining and back-to-back) sphinxes are carved in low relief and set within thin frames on this this narrow, rectangular plaque. This piece was found in a large storeroom at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was probably used to store tribute and booty collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. Originally, it was probably used as an inlay to decorate a piece of wooden furniture. An adhesive probably aided the attachment of the ivory to a wooden furniture frame. The reverse has been roughened, probably to help the glue join the surface of the plaque to the frame. This piece has been classified as Phoenician due to the elegant carving style and abundance of Egyptian imagery. Ram-headed sphinxes were often depicted in the Nile Valley during the Third Intermediate Period, a time that coincided with Phoenician presence in the Levant. Their eyes are deeply drilled to receive inlays of semiprecious stones or colored glass. While the leonine hindquarters conform to canonical representations of sphinxes, the forelegs of these hybrid creatures take the form of human arms with upraised hands and open palms, an innovation that demonstrates how Phoenician artisans creatively transformed the images they borrowed from Egyptian art. The nemes cloth (a royal, pleated headdress), pschent crown (the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt), and wesekh broad collar worn by the sphinxes are also drawn from Egyptian art. Two lotus flowers emerge behind the sphinxes and a fragmentary, hybrid tree borders the scene on the left.Built by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, the palaces and storerooms of Nimrud housed thousands of pieces of carved ivory. Most of the ivories served as furniture inlays or small precious objects such as boxes. While some of them were carved in the same style as the large Assyrian reliefs lining the wall