Furniture element: bull-man with Hathor-style curls, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 2.17 x 0.98 in. (5.51 x 2.49 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This figure belongs to a group of carved ivories, mostly furniture elements, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. Most of the ivories depict imagery borrowed and transformed from Egyptian sources, but this piece takes the form of a bull-man, a typically Near Eastern supernatural creature combining a human head and frontal nude torso with the lower quarters of a bull shown in three-quarter view (note the tail visible at left along the curve of the flanks)
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