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DescriptionMarble sphinx on a cavetto capital.jpg
English: Marble sphinx on a cavetto capital
Greek, Attic, ca. 580-575 B.C.
Said to be from Attica
Inscribed on the plinth, I am the noument of [ ]linos
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This sphinx and capital once crowned the tall grave shaft of a youth or man named Philinos or Thalinos. They belong to the earliest type of grave stele produced in Attica during the sixth century B.C. Stylistically, the sphinx is related to such early stateus as the kouros (youth) displayed in the gallery to your left. It has the same four-sided structure with grooved indications of anatomical forms and large, flat, stylized features. In the early Archaic period, Greek sculptors learned much from the Egyptians about carving large-scale stone monuments. The simple concave form of this capital imitates the cavetto molding often found in Egyptian architecture.
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Canon
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Canon PowerShot A540
Exposure time
1/60 sec (0.016666666666667)
F Number
f/4
Date and time of data generation
10:22, 22 May 2009
Lens focal length
5.8 mm
Orientation
0
Horizontal resolution
180 dpi
Vertical resolution
180 dpi
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Picasa 3.0
File change date and time
10:22, 22 May 2009
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Centered
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2.2
Date and time of digitizing
10:22, 22 May 2009
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3
APEX shutter speed
5.90625
APEX aperture
4
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0
Maximum land aperture
2.75 APEX (f/2.59)
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Pattern
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Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression, red-eye reduction mode