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Head from a Female Sphinx   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Head from a Female Sphinx
Description
This colossal head can be recognized as coming from a sphinx because her hairdo extends horizontally at the back, where it rested along the lion's body. Her modest hair decoration suggests that the woman was a princess rather than a queen. The damages to her face, including the removal of her inlaid eyes, probably occurred before the head left Egypt. In Rome, it was apparently part of Emperor Hadrian's large collection of Egyptian art. The repairs, made with stone taken from the interior of the head, may have been made in the eighteenth century, when the head was in the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani in Rome.
Date between circa 1876 and circa 1842 BC
date QS:P571,-1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,-1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1842-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium chlorite
Dimensions 38.9 × 33.3 × 35.4 cm (15.3 × 13.1 × 13.9 in)
institution QS:P195,Q632682
Current location
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art collection
Accession number
56.85
Source/Photographer
Wikipedia Loves Art at the Brooklyn Museum

This photo of item # 56.85 at the Brooklyn Museum was contributed under the team name "The_Grotto" as part of the Wikipedia Loves Art project in February 2009.
Brooklyn Museum

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