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©THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM/ART RESOURCE, NY

RAM-HEADED, WINGED SPHINXES flank a tree on this ivory panel—a Phoenician masterpiece. Discovered in a building next to the neo-Assyrian palace at Arslan Tash in northern Syria, this Phoenician ivory dates to the ninth–eighth centuries B.C.E. and originally would have adorned a piece of furniture.