Title: Shell engraved with winged female deity, sphinxes, and lotus plants
Object type: Relief
Date: 700–600 BC
Period: Iron Age II
Medium: Shell (Tridacna squamosa)
Dimensions: 2 11/16 × 5 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (6.8 × 13.65 × 4 cm)
Credit line: Purchase, Friends of Inanna Gifts, 1999
Geography:      Levant     
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Women, term: Sphinx, term: Lotuses, term: Shells