Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- 5 3/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/8 in. (13.2 × 4.2 × 4.8 cm)
- Origin
- Old Assyrian Trading Colony
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures Both · 99%
The catalog identifies the subject as a sphinx, and the image shows a human-headed figure combined with an animal-like body and paws.
Medium and Techniques
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Sculpture Visual · 91%
The object is a fully three-dimensional carved figural support with modeled facial features, body, paws, and raised side details.
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Carving Visual · 98%
The figure and its raised ornamental details are visibly formed through carving rather than assembly or modeling in a soft medium.
Time Periods
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Ancient Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the object to circa the 18th century BCE, placing it within ancient art.
Geographic Regions
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Middle Eastern and North African Art Metadata · 72%
The object is associated with an Old Assyrian Trading Colony and cataloged within Ancient West Asian Art; this supports a broad Middle Eastern regional association, although no modern geographic location is supplied.
Materials
Furniture and Lighting
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Furniture Both · 97%
The catalog classifies the object as a furniture support, and its upright plinth-and-support format is visible in the image.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.