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These three frontlets were found inside Well AJ at the North-West Palace at Nimrud (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq). They are part of the so-called "Classical Phoenician" hinged frontlets of Group 2.
The middle frontlet depicts a central male (deity) figure, wearing a solar disc on his head (flanked by two crowned uraei). He holds with his hand two bowls on which two deities are seated and hold a lotus stem. The central figure is flanked by cartouches (topped by a double-plumed solar disc) sitting on a lotus flower. The frontlet is sub-triangular in shape and the lower part ends in voluted palmette plants. There is a row of uraei at the upper margin.
The frontlets on either side represent the upper part of the hinged frontlets. A standing and winged female (goddess) figure wears the Hathor crown on a lappet wing and holds atum feathers in her hands. They are triangular in form, also ending in voluted palmette plants. The lower edge has a row of uraei.
Some of the gold overlay is still present on these frontlets. Neo-Assyrian period, 911-612 BCE. They are on display at the Nimrud Ivories Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.
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