Sphinx
See also: Category:Sphinxes
A Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, bird, or human, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in archaic Greek mythology, where it received its name (Greek Σφιγξ, "strangler"). The best known is the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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Egyptian sphinxes[edit]
The Great Sphinx of Giza.
The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background.
1:12 scale model of the Great Sphix and Pyramid of Khafre
1:12 scale model of the Great Sphix
Francis Frith, 1859
Musée du Louvre
Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
The Sphinx in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The Sphinx of Gizeh
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Middle East sphinxes[edit]
Astarte seated on a sphinx, Cyprus Museum
Sphinx Gate at Hattusa, Turkey
Persian sphinx from Persepolis
Sphinx from the temple of Zeus Labrandeus
Bronze sphinxes from western Iran, early 1st millennium BC
Carthaginian relief from Eivissa, 6th cent. BC
Coin from Byblos, circa 450–410 BCE
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Greek sphinxes[edit]
Sphinx of the Naxians (Delphi)
Oedipus and the sphinx, Red Figure Kylix, circa 470 BCE
Sphinx. Attic red-figure pyxis, mid-late 5th century BC
Coin from Chios, circa 380–350 BCE
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Roman sphinxes[edit]
Marble sphinx table support, House of the Faun, Pompeii
Gold coin with sphinx, circa 27 BC–14 AD
Two winged sphinxes, fresco from Isis Temple of Pompeii
Sphinx of Lanuvium
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Post-antique sphinxes[edit]
Sphinx at Belvedere park, Vienna, Austria
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, USA
A sphinx in Lund, Sweden
19th century bronze sphinx (Madrid, Spain).
La Granja de San Ildefonso, Madrid
Jardin El Capricho, Madrid
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Sphinxes in paintings[edit]
François-Xavier Fabre, c.1806–1808
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1808
Painting by Gustave Moreau, 1864
Painting by Heinrich Lossow, 1868
Painting by Fernand Khnopff, 1896
François-Émile Ehrmann, 1903
David Roberts, RA
David Roberts
