Unlike Cat. 41 (Figs. 142-143), this sphinx is made in one piece with the lower back part of the throne. The body is partly in the round (at the front and on top) and partly in relief and, unlike Cat. 41, the relief background extends under the body to the forelegs. The sphinx sits on its haunches. The thin sickle-shaped l. wing sweeps up to the flat surface where the seat was lodged. Slightly incised, fan- (or scale-) shaped feathers on the back move into the upswing of long feathers. The chest is rounded. A ribbon (?) is tied around the neck as a necklace; the two ends of the ribbon (not visible in side view) appear below a circular pendant. The top is a flat oval surface (0.42 by 0.20) with anathyrosis (W. 0.13) at the back.

On the sides, the lower back part of the throne is indicated by a raised area which meets the relief background in a flat chiseled edge (0.03 on slant) forming an obtuse angle. The tail of the sphinx, with its thickened tuft resembling the head of a bird or snake, ends at the apex of this angle after rising in an S-curve. The relief background is 0.025 deeper than the raised part.

As there are no technical signs of late work, the piece may be late classical or early Hellenistic, but such pieces are found as late as the early Roman Imperial period.

Grayish, not completely crystallized "half-marble."

Head and forelegs of sphinx broken off.