Fragment of a small marble sculpture of a seated sphinx from Al-Mina

Greek marble
Classical period, Persian period, ca. 5th c. BCE
Excavated at Al-Mina (see on Pleiades; Wikipedia) at the mouth of the Orontes river, on the coast of ancient Syria, now southeastern Turkey, in 1936 by Leonard Woolley.

In the collection of, and photographed on display in, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1938
Inv. AN1938.323
collections.ashmolean.org/object/464538

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Taken on: February 29, 2024

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