Façade with Sphinxes
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Title
Façade with Sphinxes
Subject
Eight fragments making two non-joining pieces which preserve parts of two antas, central column, plain architrave, beam-end frieze, one plain course, two courses of white ashlar blocks, and facing sphinxes on top.
Description
Catalogue number: 1 A 2
Dimensions:
(a) h. 0.14 m., w. 0.15 m., th. 0.028 m.
(b) h. 0.085 m., w. 0.08 m., th. 0.03 m.
Find spot: Inner propylon (2), in front of southwest face of northeast wall
Dimensions:
(a) h. 0.14 m., w. 0.15 m., th. 0.028 m.
(b) h. 0.085 m., w. 0.08 m., th. 0.03 m.
Find spot: Inner propylon (2), in front of southwest face of northeast wall
Creator
Reconstruction by Piet de Jong
Source
AJA 65 (1961) pl. 60, fig. 16a
AJA 66 (1962) pl. 40, fig. 12
Lang (2015) pp. 136-137, pls. 75, I, R
AJA 66 (1962) pl. 40, fig. 12
Lang (2015) pp. 136-137, pls. 75, I, R
Files
Citation
Reconstruction by Piet de Jong, “Façade with Sphinxes,” Pylos, accessed May 3, 2026, https://www.pylospalace-wallpaintingprogram.artinterp.org/items/show/124.