1216458 Plaque (ivory or bone) by Iraqi School; 17.6x13 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; (add.info.: Calah. Ruler or god enthroned, he wears a long tunic with bead edge, beneath chair 2 eagles guard a palmette, part of face restored. This ivory plaque from Nimrud gives us an impression of how an Assyrian king might have looked, seated on his ornate ivory throne. His feet rest on a padded footstool. Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city originally known as Kalhu, located 30 kilometres south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres south of the village of Selamiyah, in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia. ); 穢 Ashmolean Museum ; out of copyright.