Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Greek Disk Earrings With Garnet

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Sphinx   ( )
Artist	Anonymous (Hellenic republic)Unknown author
Title	Sphinx
Description	English: The elaborate earring depicts a Sphinx with a female head, pronounced breasts, and a bird's torso with raised wings seated on a trapezoidal base. She is heavily adorned, with a necklace, straps crossing betwixt the breasts, and multiple garnets. The large, central stone of her headdress is missing, just above she is wearing the crown of the Egyptian goddess Hathor, consisting of a sun-disc inscribed in cow horns with two plumes above. Outside of the myths, the apotropaic grapheme of the Sphinx likewise equally of other monsters such as griffins, sirens, and the Medusa could transform them into guardians and protectors, and make them in this case fifty-fifty into an appropriate motif for jewelry.
Date	1st century BC appointment QS:P571,-050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 (Hellenistic period era QS:P2348,Q428995 )
Medium	gold, garnet
Dimensions	height: iv.nine cm (ane.9 in); width: one.vii cm (0.half-dozen in); depth: one.6 cm (0.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,4.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,one.7U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,1.6U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, U.s. of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W Established 1934 Web page thewalters.org Authority control : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 0000 0004 0373 611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-half-dozen WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	57.1490
Place of creation	Greece
Object history	Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase 1931: ancestral to Walters Fine art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	Objects of Adornment: Five M Years of Jewelry from the Walters Fine art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Blueprint Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Fine art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Fine art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Fine art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Fine art, Sarasota. 1984-1987. Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Eye for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (The states), New York. 2009-2011. Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family unit Drove. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987. From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989. Jewelry - Aboriginal to Modernistic. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Credit line	Acquired past Henry Walters
Source	Walters Art Museum: Domicile folio Info nearly artwork
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