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: 4 15/16 × 1 7/16 × 2 1/4 in. (12.5 × 3.7 × 5.7 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Sculpture
Geography:      Anatolia probably from Acemhöyük
Credit line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932
Accession year: 1932
Tags: Sphinx