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Plaque with Winged Sphinx in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Plaque with Winged Sphinx in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009
Plaque- Winged Sphinx
Ivory
Nimrud, Iraq
8th century BC

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Phoenician ivory carving was widely exported. This piece of Phoenician-style ivory furniture inlay was found at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in northern Iraq.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.

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