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Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 59.33.1. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 59.33.1
Find spot: Qantir, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 27, or later
Date: 3rd century B.C.E.
Date range: 299 BCE – 201 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 6.7 cm
Width: 1.4 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx (59.33.1). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18008

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Caption: Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx, 3rd century B.C.E.. Faience, 2 5/8 x 9/16 x 2 5/8 in. (6.7 x 1.4 x 6.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 59.33.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A blue faience tile decorated in outline with a winged crowned sphinx figure, rendered in yellow/orange pigment on a light blue ground.

The image shows a rectangular, beveled-edge faience tile with a central figure in profile: a human-headed sphinx wearing a tall, crown-like headgear with horizontal bands and a projecting uraeus form. The figure has an extended body and raised forepaws, with two wings indicated behind the upper body. Yellow/orange paint outlines the facial features, headdress, mane/body details, and the wing placement. A partial collar or mane treatment is visible around the neck and upper chest. On the left side of the tile, there is an additional curved yellow-painted form that may relate to surrounding border elements or loose iconographic marks, but no fully legible text is clear. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible.

decorative Ptolemaic Period (consistent with catalogue; exact date unclear from image alone) fragmentary

Deities Sphinx (winged crowned sphinx, exact divine identification unclear)

Materials Faience (blue glaze; yellow/orange pigment decoration)

Signs Unidentified curved painted element (possibly part of decorative border or iconographic device)

Connections

Found at Qantir (Piramesse)

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 59.33.1 tier-2
BKM-Object 3672 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.