Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Period: Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony

Date: ca. 18th century B.C.

Geography: Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük

Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

Medium: Ivory (Hippopotamus), gold foil

Dimensions: H. 5 x W. 4 1/8 in. (12.7 x 10.4 cm)

Classification: Ivory/Bone-Sculpture

Credit Line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932

Accession Number: 32.161.46

 

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