Head of a Sphinx (Q60751282)

Label from: English (en)

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collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
depicts: sphinx (Q151480) polos (Q2067714) head (Q23640)
instance of: sculpture (Q860861)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.858

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: This female head once belonged to a sphinx, a mythological hybrid creature with the head of a woman and body of a winged lion. Her short cylindrical crown, known as a polos, helps to identify her as

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