Cast Gallery catalogue number: B043

Sphinx from a funerary monument.

• Plaster cast: Height: 75cm, Width: 58cm.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is a Greek original of about 550 BC.
  • was found at the village of Spata in Attica.
  • is now in Athens, National Museum, 28.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

B 043
Sphinx from Spata; Athens

Marble
Sepulchral Element

ca. 550 BCE; Archaic