Furniture element made from a hippopotamus incisor
Unknown Artist
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Medium
Ivory (hippopotamus)
Dimensions
1 in. × 6 3/16 in. × 3/4 in. (2.6 × 15.7 × 1.9 cm)
Classification
Ivory/Bone-Ornaments
Culture & Period
Assyrian · Neo-Assyrian
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.22.9