Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Object type: Furniture support
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: 5 3/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/8 in. (13.2 × 4.2 × 4.8 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Sculpture
Geography:      Anatolia probably from Acemhöyük
Credit line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932
Accession year: 1932
Tags: Sphinx