156d: Ivory Plaque

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/16/4
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 22 x 19.7 cm
Scope and Content An ink illustration of a plaque showing three people holding hands, 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