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, 4.88 x 1.44 in. (12.4 x 3.66 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This piece is one of a set of four furniture legs, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia, carved in the shape of compact seated sphinxes without wings. They have large eyes with inlaid pupils, only one of which survives intact
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Furniture support, female sphinx, Hathor-style curls, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca, 18th century B.C, Anatolia, Acemhöyük, Old, Ivory, hippopotamus, gold foil, 4.88 x 1.44, 12.4 3.66 cm, Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, piece, set, four furniture, legs, site, palace, central Anatolia, carved, shape, compact seated, sphinxes, wings, large eyes, inlaid pupils, survives intact
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