Furniture plaque carved in relief with two falcon-headed sphinxes trampling captives
Object type: Relief
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 9th–7th century BCE
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: 3 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (8.2 × 19.7 × 8 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Reliefs
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession year: 1961
Tags: Men|Sphinx