• r2-41-10
    Headless recumbent sphinx, Manisa 311, right side. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
  • r2-41-20
    Headless recumbent sphinx, Manisa 311, left side. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

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Dönem
Late 6th or 5th C. BC?, Geç Lidya (Pers)
Müze
Manisa, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, 311
Müze Envanter No.
311
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
Manisa 311
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Heykel
Heykelin Türü
Hayvan
Yerleşim
Sardis?
Bulunduğu Yeri
"Salihli." As Salihli has no Lydian antiquities of its own, this provenance usually indicates Sardis or vicinity, Apr. 14, 1946.
Tanım
A straight rectangular cut was made to seat the neck, head, and part of the wing (rectangle: W. 0.19, L. 0.15; dowel hole: diam. 0.035, D. 0.035). Judging from the cutting, the head may have been slightly turned to the proper r. The tail is slung up on the back and disappears at the l. haunch. The horizontal wings are broken across the back. Semicircular breast feathers are joined at the sides by long (up to 0.25), straight wing feathers which slant upward slightly. There are large claws on the l. rear paw, which is folded under the haunch.
Condition

Marble

Surface worn and partly blackened by weathering.

Boyutlar
P.H. 0.44; L. 0.90; H. of base 0.10
Yorum
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Kaynakça
For this type, which is of Near Eastern derivation, see Herrmann, Urartu und Griechenland, 97-99, n.69, figs. 19-20. The archaic Greek sphinxes of the Assos frieze, Caskey, Catalogue Sculpture Boston MFA, 12, no. 8, are fairly close in proportions. For earlier Lydian example cf. Cat. 239 (Figs. 416-418).
Yazar
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