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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.
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