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www.ajaonline.org AJA Open Access This online-only published content is freely available electronically immediately upon publication and can be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). This license allows anyone to reuse, remix, and build upon the content, as long as it is for legal noncommercial purposes; the new work must credit the author, the AJA, and the Archaeological Institute of America. Supplementary Content: Image Gallery Images to accompany the American Journal of Archaeology publication: Dressing the Neo-Assyrian Queen in Identity and Ideology: Elements and Ensembles from the Royal Tombs at Nimrud Amy Rebecca Gansell Link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.122.1.0065 Published online 13 December 2017 American Journal of Archaeology Volume 122, Number 1 DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1221.Gansell.suppl

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Page 1: AJA Open Access - American Journal of Archaeology · 2017. 11. 29. · AJA Open Access This online-only published content is freely available electronically immediately upon publication

www.ajaonline.orgAJA Open Access

This online-only published content is freely available electronically immediately upon publication and can be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). This license allows anyone to reuse, remix, and build upon the content, as long as it is for legal noncommercial purposes; the new work must credit the author, the AJA, and the Archaeological Institute of America.

Supplementary Content: Image Gallery

Images to accompany the American Journal of Archaeology publication:

Dressing the Neo-Assyrian Queen in Identity and Ideology: Elements and Ensembles from the Royal Tombs at NimrudAmy Rebecca Gansell

Link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.122.1.0065

Published online 13 December 2017 American Journal of Archaeology Volume 122, Number 1DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1221.Gansell.suppl

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Published online 13 December 2017 2American Journal of Archaeology Volume 122, Number 1https://doi.org/ajaonline1221.Gansell.suppl

AJA Open Access www.ajaonline.org

Unless otherwise noted in the caption, images are by the author. Images are not edited by the AJA to the same level as those in the published article.

fig. 1. Gold rosette circlet, ht. 6 cm, diam. 18 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.1; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105692.

fig. 2. Detail of crown of gold, lapis lazuli, turquoise, bitumen, and other stones or paste, featuring flowers, fruits, bountiful grapevines, and fantastical female figures, ht. 16 cm, diam. 24 cm, Coffin 2, Tomb III, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.309; Bagh-dad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 115619 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

fig. 3. Pair of earrings with pomegranate pendants, gold with beads of agate and other stone, wdth. ca. 4 cm. Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.38a, b; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. nos. 105821, 105822 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

fig. 4. Gold torque, diam. ca. 22.5 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.16; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105714 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

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fig. 5. Pair of gold bracelets with lion-head terminals, diam. 7.2 cm, thickness 1.6 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.9; Baghdad, Iraq Mu-seum, inv. no. 105700-1 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Pub-lic Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

fig. 6. Detail of bracelet bearing a band of imagery depicting kneeling winged genies holding cones and buckets flanking sacred trees, gold inlaid with banded agate, agate eyestones, turquoise, and pos-sibly faience, diam. of roundel ca. 6 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.10; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105702/3 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

fig. 7. Mirror with handle in the form of a palm tree. Bronze, ivory, carnelian, agate, and gold, diam. 21 cm, lgth. of handle 23.5 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.195; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 115469 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Center [PAOC], U.S. Army, Bagh-dad 2003).

fig. 8. Gold ribbed anklet, shown unclasped, diam. 7.3 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.15; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105712/3 (N.L. Feeney, 318th Public Affairs Operation Cen-ter [PAOC], U.S. Army, Baghdad 2003).

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fig. 9. Segments from forehead ornaments of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, probably from diadems with dorsal stream-ers. Segments b and c, respectively, depict a stylized and naturalistic palm tree. Ht. of longest segment (segment b) ca. 8 cm. Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud: a, ND 1989.32c; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 104815; b, ND 1989.32b; Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105814; c, ND 1989.32a; Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105813; d, ND 1989.41a; Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105828; e, ND 1989.41b; Iraq Museum, inv. no 105829; f, ND 1989.41c–e; Iraq Museum, inv. nos. 105830–32 (Hussein 2016, pl. 38; courtesy the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago). Note that the inventory number (104815) for segment a may be printed incorrectly in Hussein 2016, 79. Because all the other segments in this assemblage have inventory numbers beginning with “105,” the correct inventory for segment a may be 105815.

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fig. 10. Gold garment ornaments in the form of 10-petaled rosettes, wdth. 1.5 cm, Tomb II, Northwest Palace, Nimrud. ND 1989.116; Baghdad, Iraq Museum, inv. no. 105983 (Hussein 2016, pl. 77; courtesy the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago).