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| Keywords: Greek - Sphinx - Walters 571490 - View A.jpg The elaborate earring depicts a Sphinx with a female head pronounced breasts and a bird's body with raised wings seated on a trapezoidal base She is heavily adorned with a necklace straps crossing between the breasts and multiple garnets The large central stone of her headdress is missing but above she is wearing the crown of the Egyptian goddess Hathor consisting of a sun-disc inscribed in cow horns with two plumes above Outside of the myths the apotropaic character of the Sphinx as well as of other monsters such as griffins sirens and the Medusa could transform them into guardians and protectors and make them in this case even into an appropriate motif for jewelry century 1 BC Hellenistic gold garnet cm 4 9 1 7 1 6 accession number 57 1490 9977 Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 From Alexander to Cleopatra Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988-1989 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Greek jewellery Ancient Greek statues of sphinx | ||||
