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S. Kawami and J. Olbrantz,<EM> Breath of heaven, breath of earth: ancient Near Eastern art from American collections</EM>, (Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University; 2013).","citation":"T. S. Kawami and J. Olbrantz,<EM> Breath of heaven, breath of earth: ancient Near Eastern art from American collections</EM>, (Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University; 2013)., p. 136, plate 34.","date":2013,"id":2496,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/835981351"},{"boilertext":"Richard David Barnett<EM>, A catalogue of the Nimrud ivories: with other examples of ancient Near Eastern ivories in the British Museum</EM>, (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1957). 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Goldberg, <em>Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University</em>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., pp. 18-19.","date":1960,"id":749,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/2181913"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":23916,"period":"Phoenician Iron Age","alphasort":"Phoenician Iron Age","begindate":-1200,"enddate":-500,"displayperiod":"Phoenician Iron Age, ca. 1200–500 BCE","displaydate":"ca. 1200–500 BCE"}],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-750,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Plaque with a king plucking a lotus flower","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1956-88","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"With Spink &amp; Son by 1955; purchased from Mathias Komor, New York in 1956.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tAt a time when the kings of Assyria controlled a vast empire in the ancient Near East, Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE) built a new capital in Kalhu. On this small plaque, found in the palace he built, a ruler picks a lotus flower,\n\t\n\tvisually linking a symbol of abundance, eternity, and fertility with the king’s reign. While the image repeats motifs and themes carved into the large relief panels that adorned much of the palace—one of the panels, made of gypsum is on display in the Orientation Gallery—on this plaque the image of the king was rendered in miniature, care-fully carved into a small piece of elephant ivory.\n</p>","remarks":"MED_22_ADJ-2_CLA-Day 1 Cataloguing "}],"datebegin":-799,"sortnumber":"1956   88y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:09:23.577124","objectid":28075,"dimensions":"9.2 x 5.0 cm (3 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.)","on_view":true}