Plaque fragment: kneeling lion-headed figure
Object type: Relief
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Period: Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Date: ca. 18th century BCE
Medium: Ivory (hippopotamus), gold foil
Dimensions: 2 1/2 in. × 2 in. × 3/8 in. (6.4 × 5.1 × 1 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Reliefs
Geography:      Anatolia probably from Acemhöyük
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936
Accession year: 1937
Tags: Lions