Title: Furniture plaque: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Object type: Furniture element
Date: ca. 18th century BCE
Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Period: Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony
Medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)
Dimensions: 2 15/16 × 2 5/8 × 3/8 in. (7.5 × 6.6 × 1 cm)
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936
Geography:      Anatolia probably from Acemhöyük    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sphinx