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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes, ca. 475–450 BCE

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

ca. 475–450 BCE · Stone Sculpture

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Accession number: 74.51.2855

In the same room · Gallery 171, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

On the same theme · Sphinx

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Yes, receiving visitors

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room171

On public display.

Checked: 3 days ago
In this state since: Sep 27, 2026
Source: The museum

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Sculpture Stone Cypriot

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Marble head of Herakles, Lysippos, 1st or 2nd century CE

Lysippos

Marble head of Herakles, 1st or 2nd century CE

Marble head of a woman, 1st–2nd century CE

Marble head of a woman, 1st–2nd century CE

Marble head of the so-called Barberini Suppliant, 1st century CE

Marble head of the so-called Barberini Suppliant, 1st century CE

Stone head of a Julio-Claudian youth, possibly of Gaius Caesar, ca. 5 BCE, or later

Stone head of a Julio-Claudian youth, possibly of Gaius Caesar, ca. 5 BCE, or later

Marble portrait bust of a woman, ca. 155–165 CE

Marble portrait bust of a woman, ca. 155–165 CE

Marble portrait of a veiled man, mid-3rd century CE

Marble portrait of a veiled man, mid-3rd century CE

Marble head of Herakles, 1st century CE

Marble head of Herakles, 1st century CE

Marble bust of a man, 3rd century CE

Marble bust of a man, 3rd century CE

Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864

Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architekturphantasie mit Ruinen und einer großen Ziervase, aus den "Disegni di Prospettiva Ideale", Bl. 22, Filippo Juvarra, 1732

Filippo Juvarra

Architekturphantasie mit Ruinen und einer großen Ziervase, aus den "Disegni di Prospettiva Ideale", Bl. 22, 1732

Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

Architekturphantasie mit Freitreppe und Sphingen, aus den "Disegni di Prospettiva Ideale", Bl. 40, Filippo Juvarra, 1732

Filippo Juvarra

Architekturphantasie mit Freitreppe und Sphingen, aus den "Disegni di Prospettiva Ideale", Bl. 40, 1732

Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial, Daniel Chester French, 1889–93, carved 1921–26

Daniel Chester French

The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial, 1889–93, carved 1921–26

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Ornament mit zwei Sphingen und Engel; Ornament with two sphinxes and a winged man], Lucas van Leyden, 1528

Lucas van Leyden

[Ornament mit zwei Sphingen und Engel; Ornament with two sphinxes and a winged man], 1528

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Untitled, Karel Teige, 1939

Karel Teige

Untitled, 1939

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

The Sphinx, Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1905

Alvin Langdon Coburn

The Sphinx, c. 1905

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

[Titelblatt; Title Page], Jan Fyt, 1642

Jan Fyt

[Titelblatt; Title Page], 1642

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum