Archaic funerary <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sphinx" title="Sphinx">sphinx</a> (560–550 BC) wearing a head-band and a crown of leaves, found as a reused element in the Wall of Themistocles in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kerameikos" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerameikos">Kerameikos</a>. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kerameikos_Archaeological_Museum_in_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens">Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens</a>, Inv. P1050. H. 63 cm (24 ¾ in.).
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/64379474@N00">Tilemahos Efthimiadis</a> from Athens, Greece
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