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| Painted plaster head from Mycenae. 1300-1250 BC. One of the few surviving examples of Mycenaean sculptures in the round, | |
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| its harsh colouring and chilling stare indicate that it may represent a sphinx. The flat triangular face seems to foreshadow the conventions of the later Greek Archaic statues. | |
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