MAKE A MEME View Large Image Greek - Sphinx - Walters 54770 - Profile.jpg Sphinx dog of Hades whom are you guarding watching over the dead -funerary inscription from Thessaly The role of the sphinx as a guardian spirit was often a funerary one Like the griffins that ...
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Keywords: Greek - Sphinx - Walters 54770 - Profile.jpg Sphinx dog of Hades whom are you guarding watching over the dead -funerary inscription from Thessaly The role of the sphinx as a guardian spirit was often a funerary one Like the griffins that adorned earlier cauldrons of the Orientalizing period sphinxes such as this one served as watchdogs over the precious contents of bronze vessels which sometimes held the cremated remains of the deceased ca 550 BC Archaic bronze cm 7 3 5 1 8 base cm 1 6 5 3 accession number 54 770 29209 Lambros Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Jean P Lambros and Giovanni Dattari Sale Paris June 17-19 1912 lot 214 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 Flight Fantasy Faith Fact Dayton Art Institute Dayton 1953-1954 place of origin Locri Epizephyrii present-day Gerace Italy Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ancient Greek statues of sphinx
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