| Groups of winged sphinxes and griffins trampling fallen goats alternate with rampant goats and seated griffins. |
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| Visitors access to the Temple of Karnak through a wide two miles passageway, lined with the heads of rams and sphinxes. |
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| By the mid-1600s, Bernini was designing pyramid tombs for popes, and sphinxes and obelisks littered Europe's royal gardens. |
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| Seljuq bowl with a court scene in the centre and facing sphinxes, separated by small medallions, painted around this central motif. |
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| Its iconography was fanciful until the end of the 18th century when new archeological interests changed the representations of sphinxes. |
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| The construction is shaped like a pyramid, its entrance guarded by giant sphinxes. |
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| It includes military barracks, an avenue of sphinxes and royal palaces. |
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| Large black figure skyphos, decorated with a scene of bacchanalian between two sphinxes on both sides. |
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| A riot of sphinxes with human feet, animal-headed human figures, exotic beasts, lotus flowers, and winged sun disks appeared on furnishings and decorative objects. |
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| The other great buildings were the temple, which were monumental complexes preceded by an avenue of sphinxes and obelisks. |
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| The mantel is entirely chiseled: very elaborate candelabras cover the jambs, while interlacing foliage replete with flying griffins, fantasic sphinxes and delightful birds enliven the spandrels. |
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| Neo-classical Greek busts sit alongside figurines of lions and sphinxes and a rather daunting collection of gilded phallic columns and candlesticks. |
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| Above the mantel shelf rises a richly decorated trumeau with a pair of winged female sphinxes sitting upon an oxbow shaped pediment on either side of a large central clock enclosed in a shell shaped medallion. |
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| The restoration work on the exteriors of the Belvedere principally involve the façade stonework, the balustrade of the building, the figures of sphinxes framing each of the flights of steps and the lead covering of the dome. |
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