Plaque with Confronted Sphinxes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Plaque with confronted sphinxes

Period: Neo-Assyrian

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.

Geography: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)

Culture: Assyrian

Medium: Ivory

Dimensions: 2.05 x 6.18 x 0.28 in. (5.21 x 15.7 x 0.71 cm)

Classification: Ivory/Bone-Relief, Inscribed

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962

Accession Number: 62.269.4

Provenance:

1962, excavated by Sir Max Mallowan on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; ceded to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq in the division of finds; acquired by the Museum in 1962, purchased from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq


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