Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes

Unknown Artist

ca. 9th–8th century BC

Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes by Unknown Artist

Medium

Ivory, gold foil

Dimensions

2 5/16 × 4 7/16 × 7/16 in. (5.8 × 11.3 × 1.1 cm)

Classification

Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed

Culture & Period

Assyrian · Neo-Assyrian

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher Fund, 1957

Accession Number

57.80.4a, b

Tags

Sphinx

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