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British Museum: sphinx
On display in the British Museum, London, England (Home Page) in 2002

Limestone
Roman Period, second century AD
From Upper Egypt


In Greek mythology the sphinx is a winged lion with a woman's head - a monster which preyed on men.

This sphinx is purely Greek in concept and with its fellow may once have marked the entrance to the grave of a Greek inhabitant of Egypt.



Photo and its arrangement © 2002 Chuck LaChiusa
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