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 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 2 in. (12.6 × 4.1 × 5.2 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Sculpture
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