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A sphinx (/ s f ɪ ŋ k s / SFINKS; Ancient Greek: σφίγξ, pronounced; [1] pl. sphinxes or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. In Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [1] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre. [2]
Unlike the Greek sphinx, which was a woman, the Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. G.
The Sphinx is positioned north of the lower end of the causeway of Khafre that connects his Pyramid- and Valley Temple. It was created by carving it out of the bedrock, cutting blocks from around its body which were used to construct the Sphinx Temple immediately east of the Sphinx and north of the Valley Temple, aligned to it.
The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. As was common with other New Kingdom rulers, the epigraph makes claim to a divine legitimisation of ...
The Sphinx of Naxos, also Sphinx of the Naxians, now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, is a 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness.
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The Sphinx, a 2011 album, or the title song, by Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby) The Sphinx – Das Beste aus den Jahren 1976–1983, a 2006 album by Amanda Lear; Sphynx, a 2003 album by Melechesh "The Sphinx" (song), a 1978 song by Amanda Lear; Sphinx, a song by Gojira from their 2021 album Fortitude