THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



October, 1821. 



Art. I. — On an ancient Monument of Sculpture in Stone, 

 representing the Thehan Sphinx ; which was recently dis- 

 covered at Colchester, in Essex. Bj/ E. W. A. Hay, Esq., 

 A.B., F.A.S.* 



1 HERE is not perhaps any single object of ancient art, that 

 has been ever found in this country, which offers so much interest, 

 not merely to the antiquary, but to the artist and to the historian, 

 as this very extraordinary and beautiful sculpture lately dis- 

 covered. 



The engravings (Fig. 1, 2, 3, and 4t,) are after drawings made, 

 as nearly as the perspective would admit, according to a scale 

 of one quarter the size of the original. They represent the four 

 principal views of the Sphinx, which the sculptor has exhibited 

 as having already slain some victim of her wiles ; her blood- 

 thirsty passion would seem to be already satiated ; she sits as 

 it were satisfied with her prowess, and in perfect serenity, over 

 the mangled remains of her unsuccessful opponent. 



• In a letter which the writer of this article published lately at Colches- 

 ter, upon the same subject, he announced his intention of transmitting the 

 four drawings, here engraved, to the Society of Antiquaries of London, for 

 the purpose of insertion iu their Archasological publication. The drawings 

 have been exhibited to the society, and excited considerable interest with 

 that learned body ; but, as the forthcoming volume of the Archaeologia was 

 already completed, and in the press, and there was not any probability 

 of part of another being published within a twelvemonth from the present 

 time, it was thought desirable to convey to the public, §orae knowledge of 

 this curious discovery, through the circulation of this Quarterly Journal. 



t The figures 1 and 2 present the right and left views of the monument : 

 the figures 3 and 4, shewing the front and rear views, will be given .in the 

 following Number of this Journal. 

 Vol. XII. B 



