File:Phanagoria sphinx.jpg

Source
Source: http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_0_8_3.html

Description
A terracotta vessel in the shape of a sphinx, 5th century BC.

Discovered in a feminine necropolis ("Demeter's priestess") near Phanagoria, Russia. On exhibit at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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