Furniture support in the shape of a female sphinx with Hathor-style curls. Made from hippopotamus ivory and covered with gold foil. Middle Bronze Age, ca. 18th century B.C. Found in what was likely an Assyrian trading colony in Acemhöyük, Anatolia.  (Source: Metropolitan Museum) View high resolution

Furniture support in the shape of a female sphinx with Hathor-style curls. Made from hippopotamus ivory and covered with gold foil.

Middle Bronze Age, ca. 18th century B.C. Found in what was likely an Assyrian trading colony in Acemhöyük, Anatolia. 

(Source: Metropolitan Museum)

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