Furniture support: female sphinx 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), gold foil, H. 5 x W. 4 1/8 in. (12.7 x 10.4 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, Around 1900 B.C., traders from the northern Mesopotamian city of Ashur established karums, or 'merchants' colonies,' at a number of central Anatolian cities, among them the site of Acemhöyük. Assyrian merchants lived in a restricted area of these cities, trading textiles and tin from the southeast for silver but operating under the rule of local kings
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