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Object · ca. 9th-8th century BCE
Ivory plaque from Nimrud with two sphinxes
An ivory furniture plaque excavated in 1962 at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud: two sphinxes flanking a cartouche. The record attributes the style to the Phoenician and notes that none of the inlays survived.
- Region
- Mesopotamia
- Material
- Ivory
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York