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Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding, ram-headed sphinx supported by two kneeling figures

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Ivory, Neo-Assyrian, Assyrian
Ancient West Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1962
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Title: Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding, ram-headed sphinx supported by two kneeling figures
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Ivory, Neo-Assyrian, Assyrian.

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