id: 144115 accession number: 1968.45 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.45 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:21.861000 Decorative Plaque: Man; and Griffin in Combat, 900–800 BCE. Phoenicia, Iraq, Nimrud. Ivory; overall: 6.5 x 3.9 cm (2 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.45 title: Decorative Plaque: Man; and Griffin in Combat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900–800 BCE creation date earliest: -900 creation date latest: -800 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Phoenicia, Iraq, Nimrud technique: ivory department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Ivory find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 6.5 x 3.9 cm (2 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Atikot: 5,000 Years of Civilization in Israel. The Temple Museum of Religious Art, Cleveland, OH (May-September 1, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1969-09-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE British School of Archaeology in Iraq date: 1951-1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 1 (1969). page number: p. 5 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152250 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n23 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n22 Herrmann, Georgina. Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 185, fig. 293 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.45/1968.45_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.45/1968.45_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.45/1968.45_full.tif