Sphinx, Tuff, chiseled, Nenfro tuff, chiseled, Total: Height: cm; Width: cm; Depth: cm, Sculptures, funerary monument, funeral furnishings, Sphinx, The 'Hamburg Sphinx' in the common Greek seating scheme is one of the best examples of archaic Etruscan sculpture preserved. The cylindrical lion's body of the mighty hybrid is shown in profile, while the human-shaped head looks at the observer frontally. The wings are curved upward in a sickle shape, the tail is curved around the right rear thigh.

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