Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes
Object type: Relief
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BC
Medium: Ivory, gold foil
Dimensions: 2 5/16 × 4 7/16 × 7/16 in. (5.8 × 11.3 × 1.1 cm)
Classification: Ivory/Bone-Reliefs-Inscribed
Geography:      Syria probably from Arslan Tash (ancient Hadatu)
Credit line: Fletcher Fund, 1957
Accession year: 1957
Tags: Sphinx