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Keywords: Marble sphinx on a cavetto capital.jpg en Marble sphinx on a cavetto capital Greek Attic ca 580-575 B C Said to be from Attica Inscribed on the plinth I am the noument of linos Metropolitan Museum of Art New York This sphinx and capital once crowned the tall grave shaft of a youth or man named Philinos or Thalinos They belong to the earliest type of grave stele produced in Attica during the sixth century B C Stylistically the sphinx is related to such early stateus as the kouros youth displayed in the gallery to your left It has the same four-sided structure with grooved indications of anatomical forms and large flat stylized features In the early Archaic period Greek sculptors learned much from the Egyptians about carving large-scale stone monuments The simple concave form of this capital imitates the cavetto molding often found in Egyptian architecture Fletcher Fund 1924 24 97 87 own Ori livneh 2009-05-22 cc-zero Ancient Greek statues of sphinx
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