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Sphinx of Hatshepsut (ca. 1479–1458 BCE). This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles...

The Sphinx Gate at Alacahöyük (the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement in central Turkey) was built in the 14th century BCE. It was the south entrance of the city and was fortified with towers. It was flanked by sphinx protomes sculpted...

Greek sphinx that may once have guarded the tomb of a Greek inhabitant in Egypt. Roman Egypt, 2nd century CE. In Greek mythology, the sphinx was a monster with the head of a woman, a bird's wings, the body of a lion, and often a serpent's...

Granite sphinx of Taharqa, 25th Dynasty, c. 690-664 BCE. This statue from Kawa (Temple T) in Sudan shows the Pharaoh's face on a Lion figured sphinx, a form of royal representation borrowed from Middle and New Kingdom art. Taharqa was...

The Sphinx Gate at Alacahöyük (the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement in central Turkey) was built in the 14th century BCE. It was the south entrance of the city and was fortified with towers. It was flanked by sphinx protomes sculpted...

Winged Sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great (549-486 BCE) at Susa.

Bonaparte before the Sphinx, oil on canvas by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1886. Hearst Castle collection.

This ivory plaque is part of the so-called "Nimrud Ivories." The sphinx wears the typical Egyptian Pharaohs' double crown and an apron with cobra. This indicates that the plaque was made by a Phoenician craftsman. From Nimrud (ancient Kalhu...

A red-figure tondo showing Oedipus and the sphinx of Thebes, from Vulci, 470 BCE. Vatican Museums, Rome.

A sphinx in pentelic marble, from a funerary stele, c. 570 BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.