Tile with Winged Crowned Female Sphinx              Faience, glazed, likely from Qantir, Egypt 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 5/8 in. (6.1 x 6.1 x 1.6 cm) Ptolemaic Period, 3rd century B.C.E. Brooklyn #68.19, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx Faience, glazed, likely from Qantir, Egypt 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (6.7 x 6.7 cm) Ptolemaic Period, 3rd century B.C.E. Brooklyn #59.33.1, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Photo © Joan Lansberry, May 2008

(From the info card): "As these tiles from the early Ptolemic Period show, Persian influences in Egyptian art were not limited to periods of Persian domination of Egypt. The images on the tiles exhibit a combination of Achaemenid Persian and earlier Near Eastern stylistic and iconographical motifs that found a home in Greek and Hellenistic art as well as in Persian art. Purely Egyptian sphinxes lack crowns, curving wings, full beards, or female breasts."