Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Unknown Artist
ca. 18th century BCE
Medium
Ivory (Hippopotamus), gold foil
Dimensions
5 3/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/8 in. (13.2 × 4.2 × 4.8 cm)
Classification
Ivory/Bone-Sculpture
Culture & Period
Old Assyrian Trading Colony · Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932
Accession Number
32.161.46
Tags
Sphinx