Title: Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx
Object type: Horse blinker
Date: ca. 8th century BCE
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: 4 1/8 × 7 5/16 × 13/16 in. (10.5 × 18.6 × 2 cm)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1954
Geography:      Mesopotamia Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sphinx