Winged Sphinx

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Edit: 03/09/18 Uploaded photo of sphinx printed at 0.05mm layer height, 130mm x 156mm and painted. Modeled in Sculptris using photograph from the British Museum image gallery. Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx Phoenician, 9th-8th century BC. Found at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu}, northern Iraq. Ivory panel in openwork shows a male, human-headed sphinx walking amongst flowering plants; wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and hanging from the chest is an apron with a projecting uraeus; probably made by Phoenician craftsmen.