Sphinx of Naxos-Sphinx of the Naxians-Archaeological Museum of Delphi-Bronze Reproduction-Ancient order Greece

Sphinx of Naxos-Sphinx of the Naxians-Archaeological Museum of Delphi-Bronze Reproduction-Ancient Greece

Details:
Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze with Green patina
Height on stand: 20 cm - 7.5 inches
Width on stand: 18 cm - 7 inches
Height without stand: 17 cm - 6.7 inches
Width without stand: 13 cm - 5.1 inches
Weight: 2.6 Kg
A sphinx is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a order lion and a human head. In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, sometimes with the wings of a great bird, and the face of a human. It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster. The Sphinx of Naxos (now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi) is a colossal 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness. It was orignially set up on a stele around 560 BC as an offering to the temple of Apollo by Naxos, one of the richest Cycladic islands at the time. (052)