Furniture plaque: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Object type: Furniture element
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)
Dimensions: 2 15/16 × 2 5/8 × 3/8 in. (7.5 × 6.6 × 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: 1936
Tags: Sphinx