Horse Frontlet with Nude Goddess in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Horse Frontlet with Nude Goddess Holding Lotus Flowers and Lions
Ivory
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kahlu), Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 37
Phoenician Style, 9th-8th century BC

Accession #61.197.5

Reliefs depict triangular frontlets on the foreheads and noses of horses to protect them from blows. Perhaps this example was worn on parade, rather than in battle where a more substantial material would have been used.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.