Title: Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Object type: Furniture support
Date: ca. 18th century BCE
Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Period: Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Medium: Ivory (hippopotamus), gold foil
Dimensions: 4 15/16 × 1 7/16 × 2 1/4 in. (12.5 × 3.7 × 5.7 cm)
Credit line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932
Geography:      Anatolia probably from Acemhöyük    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sphinx