Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls, ca. 18th century

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Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century , Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), gold foil, x in. ( x 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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