156a: Ivory Plaque

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/16/1
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 20.1 x 15.6 cm
Scope and Content An ink illustration of a plaque showing two people facing each other holding two circular objects between them. Some sections, shown by dotted lines, are recreated and not part of the surviving object. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Ivory plaques (a-f), for the most part affixed to the front of bronze brooches (fibulae). They belong to the years about 700 B.C.: (a) is rather earlier than the rest; (f) rather later."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Carvings in ivory and bone"
Related records [1936/1/5/16], 156: Ivory plaques, ivory lion holding a calf