Plaque with falcon-headed Re wearing crown of Upper and Lower Egypt ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Assyrian This curved, trapezoidal ivory plaque 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. It depicts a figure with the head of a falcon kneeling with elbows bent and palms held outwards, facing a stylized tree to the right. The figure wears a type of Egyptian headdress called a lappet wig, topped by a version of the Egyptian double crown which has a curled element added at the front. He is dressed in a belted garment with short skirt and loose, short sleeves, decorated with a beaded border, and is barefoot. The stylized tree is made up of a vertical trunk topped by a palmette and a curving branch rising from the root, topped by a bud; presumably the other half of the tree would have been symmetrical, and was depicted on the adjoining plaque to the right when this plaq