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The "Joseph Smith" Sphinx at Gilgal Gardens in Salt Lake City, Utah. This was shot with an antique Futura-S camera and those are the actual edges of the negatives around the image.
Left to right: Banded Sphinx (Eumorpha fasciatus) and a Carolina Sphinx (Manduca sexta) at Plainsboro Preserve.
A pair of sphinx (sphinkes? sphinxi?) on a corner of the roof of the Royal Scottish Academy, a Saltire fluttering from the flagpole behind them and on top of that a seagull which appears to be lording it over all of them.
A sphinx - Gizeh 2010
Make:SONY
Model:DCR-DVD805E
Shutter Speed:1/425 second
Aperture:F/4.0
Focal Length:5 mm
Remains of the Persian age are scarse, but this beautiful sphinx (now in the archaeological museum in the castle of Bodrum) compensates much. It is a rare example of free-standing Achaemenid art. One reason for the paucity of Persian remains is that they belong to the oldest, and deepest strata, which are hard to excavate in a city near the sea. Another explanation is that in Turkey, the Achaemenid age is not a really popular subject.
Sphinx of Hatshepsut
New Kingdom
Dynasty 18
Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
ca. 1473–1458 B.C.
Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Senenmut Quarry, MMA 1926-1928
This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes headcloth and royal beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri. Smashed into many fragments at the order of Hatshepsut's nephew and successor Thutmose III and dumped in a quarry close by, this beast was recovered by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition and reassembled. It weighs more than seven tons.
Blinded Sphinx
(Paonias excaecata : Sphyngidae)
Kohl's Ranch, Gila Co., AZ, ca. 5300 ft. elev. Ponderosa pine/oak/juniper forest vic. of Tonto Creek.
First one I've seen.
It crowned an archaic funerary stele, dated to 550-540 B.C. Archaelogical Museum of Kerameikos, Athens.