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Resources on the Great sphinx in Giza as well as the riddling sphinx familiar from the Oedipus legend.
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The sphinx was a mythological creature of legend and in sculpture, recognized by its leonine body and human head, although the gender varied, and the creature sometimes had wings and varied its position.

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