Keywords: Greek - Sphinx Vase Ornament - Walters 541078.jpg Locri Epizephyrii present-day Gerace Italy a particularly active bronze-working center specialized in richly ornamental attachments for vessels and utensils This vase attachment is in the form of a sphinx a mythical creature with the body of a lion wings of a bird and head of a woman She wears a high polos or ritual crown century 6 BC Archaic bronze cm 8 2 7 2 5 accession number 54 1078 14212 Lambros Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Jean P Lambros and Giovanni Dattari Sale Paris June 17-19 1912 lot 215 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Locri Epizephyrii present-day Gerace Italy Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ancient Greek statues of sphinx |