ID: ITPOHPHP56 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2018

Sphinx

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View of a marble sphinx that served as a support for a table. From Pompeii, the House of the Faun.

A Sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a crouched lion. Often with wings.

It is now on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.