id:			144162
accession number:	1968.48
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.48
updated:		2023-08-23 22:11:25.095000

Decorative Plaque: Cow Nursing Its Calf, 900–800 BC. Phoenician, Iraq, Nimrud, 9th-8th Century BC. Ivory; overall: 4.6 x 12.4 cm (1 13/16 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.48

title:				Decorative Plaque: Cow Nursing Its Calf
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creation date:			900–800 BC
creation date earliest:		-900
creation date latest:		-800
current location:		102A Ancient Near East
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Phoenician, Iraq, Nimrud, 9th-8th Century BC
technique:	ivory
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Near Eastern Art
type:		Ivory
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measurements: Overall: 4.6 x 12.4 cm (1 13/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

	title:		A Cleveland Bestiary
	opening date:   1981-10-15T04:00:00
	<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Atikot: 5,000 Years of Civilization in Israel. </em>The Temple Museum of Religious Art, Cleveland, OH (May-September 1, 1969)

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PROVENANCE

	British School of Archaeology in Iraq
	date: 1951-1968
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1968-
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wall description:
This small plaque was executed in the Phoenician style with symmetrical compositions, elongated figural proportions, and Egyptian subjects and motifs. Examples have been found throughout the Middle East, but thousands come from Nimrud where most were excavated in the storerooms of a military arsenal built by King Shalmaneser II (858-824 bc). When the Nimrud palace was sacked in the 7th century bc, these ivories were thrown into a well, where Sir Max Mallowan (the husband of Agatha Christie) discovered them in 1951. The monumental wall relief (1943.246) was found at the same Assyrian palace at Nimrud.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1968." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 56, no. 1 (1969)
	page number: 	p. 5
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152250

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 32; Mentioned: p. 31, p. 91
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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.48/1968.48_full.tif