Details:
Condition: New, made in Greece.
Approximately
Height: 17cm - 5.5 inches
Width: 15cm - 2.7 inches
Weight: 400g
Material: Yellow clay
A sphinx is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and a human head.
In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, sometimes with the wings of a great bird, and the face of a human. It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless.
Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.
Spinx reproduction from Attica about 600b.c.
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