Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Unknown Artist

ca. 18th century BCE

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls by Unknown Artist

Medium

Ivory (hippopotamus), gold foil

Dimensions

5 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 1 7/8 in. (12.7 × 4.1 × 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 Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936

Accession Number

36.70.8

Tags

Sphinx

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