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Stylized tree
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Stylized tree

Ivory, 14th-13th cent. B.C.
Assur
Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, inv. VA. Ass. 981.37

The tree, which appears to be a pomegranate, was probably part of a long inlaid frieze that decorated one of the rooms in the Palace of Tukulti-Ninurta I at Assur.