IDENTIFIERS
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id:	63013
accession number:	E.11.1971

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 25 September 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sphinx, recumbent, original head missing (head restored)
object type: Carved recumbent sphinx, on top of a thin rectangular base. The original head is missing, and the head has been restored. This manner of sphinx bears parallels to other attestations in the Ptolemaic Period. A similar example can be seen in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC), excavated at Kom Ombo. Likely part of an avenue of sphinxes that led to the Serapeum Temple, North Saqqara.
title:	statuette

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities
creditline: Given by the Egypt Exploration Society, 1971

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/63013





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: figure

DATING
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creation date:	400 - 201
creation date earliest:	400
creation date latest:	201
culture:	Late Period-Ptolemaic


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 44.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 25

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 14



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Made in Ancient Egypt
CITATIONS
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[Unknown: CEN April 6 1971]
[Unknown: JEA 56 (1970)]
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.3, Memphis : Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr
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