Plaque ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Assyrian This ivory panel was found in a storage room in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. Like many other panels from the same storage room, it was part of a chair or couch back or the headboard of a bed. Twenty pieces of furniture were discovered stacked in orderly rows in this room, where they had been stored before the destruction of the Assyrian palaces in 612 B.C. Shown here is a beardless male figure, probably a youth, wearing an elaborate headdress. His hair resembles Egyptian wigs, and his headdress incorporates Egyptian motifs, including the central element called an atef, worn by the god Osiris, and the two cobra and sun-disk elements, called uraei (singular: uraeus). He wears a robe with fringed hem that is belted at the waist over a short skirt, and strides forward on bare feet. With his left hand, he holds a pitcher from which a plant