Ivory Horse Blinker with a Seated Sphinx Wearing a Uraeus and Sun-Disc Headdress in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008

Horse Blinker with a Seated Sphinx Wearing a Uraeus and Sun-Disc Headdress; Neo-Assyrian period, 8th century B.C.; Phoenician style
Mesopotamia; excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu),
Northwest Palace, well in Room NN
Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1954 (54.117.1)
Inscribed: Djunen [a Phoenician name]

Horse trappings, including frontlets and blinkers such as this one, were represented on Assyrian reliefs.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/explore/anesite/html/el_ane_ivory5.htm