Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Fragment of a female sphinx facing to her left, a votive offering from the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta. The lower part of the body of the sphinx does not survive.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 51.105.124.7
- Collection type
- Religion
- Culture
- Lakonian
- Date made
- 6th Century BC
- Collector
- John Percival Droop
- Place collected
- Europe: Southern Europe: Greece: Sparta: Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
- Date collected
- 1906 - 1910
- Materials
- Lead
- Measurements
- Overall: 42 mm x 25 mm
- Credit line
- Bequest of Professor Droop, 1963
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Droop, John Percival, Donor
- Location
- Item not currently on display
- Publications
- The Annual of the British School at Athens, Muskett Georgina, 2014-11, Page: 160, 166
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