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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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Gallery
[edit]Egyptian sphinxes
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The Great Sphinx of Giza.
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The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background.
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1914
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1:12 scale model of the Great Sphix and Pyramid of Khafre
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1:12 scale model of the Great Sphix
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Francis Frith, 1859
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Musée du Louvre
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Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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The Sphinx in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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The Sphinx of Gizeh
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Sfinks
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1860
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painting 1920s
Middle East sphinxes
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Astarte seated on a sphinx, Cyprus Museum
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Sphinx Gate at Hattusa, Turkey
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Persian sphinx from Persepolis
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Sphinx from the temple of Zeus Labrandeus
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Bronze sphinxes from western Iran, early 1st millennium BC
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Carthaginian relief from Eivissa, 6th cent. BC
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Coin from Byblos, circa 450–410 BCE
Greek sphinxes
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Sphinx of the Naxians (Delphi)
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Oedipus and the sphinx, Red Figure Kylix, circa 470 BCE
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Sphinx. Attic red-figure pyxis, mid-late 5th century BC
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Coin from Chios, circa 380–350 BCE
Roman sphinxes
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Marble sphinx table support, House of the Faun, Pompeii
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Gold coin with sphinx, circa 27 BC–14 AD
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Two winged sphinxes, fresco from Isis Temple of Pompeii
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Sphinx of Lanuvium
Post-antique sphinxes
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Sphinx at Belvedere park, Vienna, Austria
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Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, USA
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A sphinx in Lund, Sweden
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La Granja de San Ildefonso, Madrid
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Jardin El Capricho, Madrid
Sphinxes in paintings
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François-Xavier Fabre, c.1806–1808
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1808
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Painting by Gustave Moreau, 1864
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Painting by Heinrich Lossow, 1868
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Painting by Fernand Khnopff, 1896
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François-Émile Ehrmann, 1903
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David Roberts, RA
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David Roberts