Sphinx Collection (page 4)

The Great Sphinx, Giza, Egypt - aerial photograph. Note the site is still being excavated at this stage. Date: circa 1930s

Sphinx Sundial - Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside
Sphinx Sundial on Bath Street, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside. This sundial was erected to celebrate the Relief of Mafeking in 1899

The Sphinx like statue in the grounds of the Egyptian Museum Cairo, is to the right of this image. European visitors queuing up outside the building Date: 1978

Lorna Holder sitting by a Sphinx-like statue - Egyptian Muse
Lorna Holder sitting by the Sphinx like statue in the grounds of the Egyptian Museum Cairo. Steps leading into the museum to the back right of the image. Date: 1978

Luxor, Karnak, Egypt - Avenue of the ram-headed Sphinxes
Luxor, Temple of Karnak, Egypt - Avenue of the ram-headed Sphinxes - Egypt, North Africa - Card series (8/8). Date: circa 1910s

Alexandria, Egypt - Pompeys Column (Pillar) and Sphinx. Date: circa 1910s

Egypt. Sphinx of Memphis. Alabaster
Egyptian Art. Sphinx of Memphis. Alabaster. Probably dates between 1700 and 1400 B.C. during the 18th dynasty. Is believed that the sphinx honored Hatshepsut

Alabaster Sphinx - Memphis, Egypt
The Alabaster Sphinx - Memphis, Egypt. The facial features imply that the Sphinx is honoring Hatshepsut or Amenhotep II or Amenhotep III. Date: circa 1910s

Egypt. Spinx of Giza. Detail. Lions claws
Egypt. Great Sphinx of Giza. Limestone statue with lion body and human head. Is believed that represents the Pharaoh Khafra. Built as a protective guard on the banks of the River Nile. Detail

Egypt. Spinx of Giza
Egypt. Great Sphinx of Giza. Limestone statue with lion body and human head. Is believed that represents the Pharaoh Khafra. Built as a protective guard on the banks of the River Nile. Old Kingdom

Visit Egypt advertisement, 1929
Advertisement promoting Egypt as a travel destination with an illustration of a glamorous couple posing against a backdrop of the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza. Date: 1929

British troops at the Sphinx, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Egypt. Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza. View. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Fantastic Adventures - Shadow of the Sphinx
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1946, featuring the story Shadow of the Sphinx by William Lawrence Hamling. A scary looking skeleton lies its hand on the shoulder of a young beautiful woman

Marble votive relief dedicated to the goddess Totoes in the form of a sphinx. It comes from Amphipolis (Macedonia). II century a.C. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Fragment of the beard of the Great Sphinx of Giza. Egypt. New Kingdom. 14th century BC. 1420BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Early Classical. Guardian Sphinxes. 5th BC. Lycian. Xanthos
Early Classical. Late Archaic. Guardian Sphinxes. Limestone. 470BC-450BC. Lycian. Xanthos, building H. Turkey. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Sphinx and a lion in relief. Basalt. Syria
Sphinx and a lion in relief. Basalt. Guarding the temple of Tell Halaf. From about 6100 to 5400 b.C.. Currently located at the entrance to the National Museum of Aleppo. Syria

Sphinx. Basalt. Syria
Sphinx. Basalt. Guarded the temple of Tell Halaf. From about 6100 to 5400 b.C.. Currently located at the entrance to the National Museum of Aleppo. Syria

Egypt. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a sphinx with falco
Egypt. Edfu. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a sphinx with falcon head and double crown of lotus flowers and goddess Nekhbet with vulture form over lotus flowers

Egypt. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a Ptolemaic pharaoh
Egypt. Edfu. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a Ptolemaic pharaoh offering to the gods a small sphinx

Greek art. Sphinx. Marble. 550 BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece

Hittites. Column base with double sphinx from the entrance of Palace of Zincirli. 8th century BC. Sma al(Turkey). Pergamon Museum. Museum Island. Berlin. Germany

Head of an sphinx. East Pediments Group of the Temple of Ae
East Pediments Group of the Temple of Aegina, depicting Heracles against Troy. Detail of the head of a sphinx of the roof. Around 480 BC. Glyptothek Museum. Munich. Germany

Sphinx. Sculpture. Glyptothek Museum. Munich. Germany

6th century BCE. Votive statue of a sphinx. BC 560-550. Acro
Greek art. 6th century BCE Greece. Votive statue of a sphinx. BC 560-550. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece

Greek Art. Magna Graecia. Amphora decorated. Sphinxes. National Museum of Denmark

Sphinxs paw from Memphis. 2000-1000 BC. Egypt
Paw of a large sphinx with lions claws. Quartzite. Middle or New Kingdom. C. 2000-1000 BC. From Memphis, Egypt. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Greek Art. Orientalizing style. Pottery. 8th and 7th centuries BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Etruscan Art. Veji, the Campana Tomb. Copy of tomb painting. Colourful frescoes decorated the walls from door to ceiling. 600 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Denmark

Etruscan stone sarcophagus of Bomarzo
Stone sarcophagus with lid carved in the likeness of the roof of a house decorated with sphinxes. 325-250 BC. From the Grotta Dipinta in Bomarzo (Italy). British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Egypt. Pyramids and Sphinx. Colored engraving, 1879

Reliefs representing a falcon-headed sphinx. Temple of Horus. Edfu. Egypt

Karnak Temple. Avenue of sphinxes with rams head (symbol of
Egyptian Art. Karnak Temple. Avenue of sphinxes with rams head (symbol of the god Amon). Built during the reign of Ramses II. 19th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Around Luxor. Egypt

The Ain Dara temple. Around Aleppo. Syria
The Ain Dara temple. Dating to between the 10th and 8th century B.C. First, ritual pool. Around Aleppo. Syria

Temple of Luxor. Avenue of the Sphinxes. Detail of one of the illuminated sculptures. Night view. Egypt

Temple of Luxor. Night view of the monumental entrance or first pylon. Egypt

Avenue of the sphinx. Luxor
EGYPTIAN ART. TEMPLE OF LUXOR. Sphinx located in the Avenue of the sphinx. New Kingdom. Ancient Thebes Waset. Egypt

EGYPT. TEMPLE OF LUXOR. Avenue of the Sphinxes. New Kingdom. At the back, the first pylon or monumental gateway built by Ramses II. Ancient Thebes

AMPHORISC decorated with black figures representing Sphinx
Amphorisc decorated with black figures representing Sphinx. Chalkidiki style. Attributed to the workshop of the painter Phineus. Dated between 540-530 b.C. Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art

Sphinx by Moonlight / 1912
The Sphinx by moonlight. Date: 1912

Tourists at the Pyramids
European tourists enjoy a champagne lunch with a fine view of the Pyramids and the Sphinx onto which the lady has turned her back Date: circa 1903

Folklore / Sphinx
An Egyptian sphinx in her original state - with hair, a nose, claws and seemingly clothing covering her chest

Roberts / Sphinx / Side On
The Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza Date: 1846

Benjamin Disraeli buys Suez Canal shares
Disraeli (as Jewish trader) proposes to buys Suez Canal shares to secure the safety of the passage to India Date: 1875

Music cover, Valse Mystique (Mystical Waltz), by Leon du Terrail, depicting the Egyptian Sphinx. 1919

Kitchener takes Egypt and its gods by surprise, 1914
Horatio, Lord Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum(1850-1916). Soldier; caricatured as El Lord, surprising the gods of Egypt

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