3900046 Cloisonne furniture or cosmetic box plaque with three frontal heads, c.8th??th century B.C. (ivory) by Neo-Assyrian, (7th century BC); 2.59x6.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: From Fort Shalmaneser at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Mesopotamia in storerooms built by king Ashurnasirpal II During the final defeat of Assyria at the end of the 7th century B.C., the royal complexes were sacked and burned, and the plaque was likely blackened through exposure to fire at this time. ).