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17. Panel with back-to-back griffins against a ground of lotuses, from Room SW 37 of Fort Shalmaneser. Phoenician style. Nimrud, Mesopotamia; Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 8th century b.c. Ivory, h. 4 1∕8 in. (10.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1961 (61.197.1)
18. Plaque with a figure wearing an Egyptianstyle crown slaying a griffin, from Room SW 37 of Fort Shalmaneser. Syrian style. Nimrud, Mesopotamia; Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 9th – 8th century b.c. Ivory, h. 4 1∕8 in. (10.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1961 (61.197.11)
19. Plaque with a standing winged female figure, from Room SW 7 of Fort Shalmaneser. Syrian style. Nimrud, Mesopotamia; NeoAssyrian period, 9th – 8th century b.c. Ivory, h. 10 in. (25.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1958 (58.31.2)
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20. Chair-back panel with a warrior holding lotuses, from Room SW 7 of Fort Shalmaneser. Syrian style. Nimrud, Mesopotamia; NeoAssyrian period, ca. 8th century b.c. Ivory, h. 11 3∕8 in. (28.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1959 (59.107.7)