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: 5 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 1 7/8 in. (12.7 × 4.1 × 4.8 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