What medium is "Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin"?

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin is Ivory.

Is "Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin" in the public domain?

Yes, Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Q: When was "Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin" created?

This artwork was created ca. 8th century BCE.

Unknown Artist

ca. 8th century BCE

Medium

Ivory

Dimensions

H. 5 5/16 x W. 3in. (13.5 x 7.6cm)

Classification

Ivory/Bone-Sculpture

Culture & Period

Assyrian · Neo-Assyrian

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1960

Accession Number

60.145.11

Tags

AnimalsMenMonkeys

Art Historical Context

This exquisite ivory sculpture, titled *Figure of a Man with an Oryx, a Monkey, and a Leopard*, hails from the Neo-Assrian period around the 8th century BCE. Carved by an unknown Assyrian artist, it stands just 5 5/16 inches tall, a testament the remarkable skill of ancient Near Eastern craftsmen working in miniature. Housed the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Ancient Near Eastern, this piece captures a bearded man holding an oryx (a graceful antelope) and a monkey, draped in a leopard skin—symbols of exotic luxury and power drawn from distant lands. In the Neo-Assyrian Empire, at it...

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

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