id:			110236
accession number:	1928.858
share license status:	CC0
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Head of a Sphinx, 540–520 BCE. Greece, Archaic period. Marble; overall: 27 x 20.5 x 26.3 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1928.858

title:				Head of a Sphinx
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creation date:			540–520 BCE
creation date earliest:		-540
creation date latest:		-520
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Greece, Archaic period
technique:	marble
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 27 x 20.5 x 26.3 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
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CITATIONS

	R. H. “Art of the Early Greeks.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 15, no. 10 (1928): 191–97.
	page number: 	Discussed 191-193
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137160.

	Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>Art in America </em>Vol. XXXI, Issue 3, July, 1943: 112-126.
	page number: 	Reproduced p. 112, Discussed p. 114
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 12
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n18

	Carter, Martha L. <em>Classical Art.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 2. Plate 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n5

	Holloway, R. Ross. <em>Influences and Styles in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Greek Sculpture of Sicily and Magna Graecia.</em> Louvain: Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, 1975.
	page number: 	Discussed p. 35, reproduced p.127, figs. 216, 217
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	Ridgway, Brunhilde Sismondo. <em>The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture. </em>Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
	page number: 	Discussed p. 158-159, Reproduced figs. 44-45
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	Fuchs, Werner, and Josef Floren. <em>Die Griechische Plastik. Band I: Die Geometrische und Archaische Plastik. </em>München: C.H. Beck, 1987.
	page number: 	Discussed p. 427-428, Listed p. 457
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