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Shell Engraved with Winged Female Deity, Sphinxes and Lotus Plants in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Shell Engraved with Winged Female Deity, Sphinxes and Lotus Plants in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
Title: Shell engraved with winged female deity, sphinxes, and lotus plants

Period: Iron Age II

Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.

Geography: Levant

Medium: Shell (Tridacna squamosa)

Dimensions: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm)

Classification: Shell-Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Inanna Gifts, 1999

Accession Number: 1999.81

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...

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