representing the Theban Sphinx. U 



leave to observe, that it is only requisite to turn to Montfau- 

 con*, to HofFmannf, to Raspet, or to Millin §, among the' 

 mass of antiquarian authority to which we might refer, for the 

 exhibition of a victim conjoined with the image of the Grecian 

 Sphinx. Yet, in the careful attachment, which is sometimes 

 perhaps too exclusively retained, for precedent ; we may be 

 called upon to give an example from antiquity, of the de- 

 struction of a victim of the Sphinx, being shewn as already 

 completed. The following view of an Amethyst Gem, copied 

 from the Traiti des Pierres Gravces of Mariette |1, is for this 

 purpose very satisfactory. 



• AntU,. Expliq. T. 2, pari. 1 1, c. xvii. t Lexicon, Vo. Si.hinx. 



X Descripth-e Catalogue of Tas.sie's Gems, No. 8o96, ^c. 



§ (ialeric Mytholog. V\. 142, No. .';02. 



II I here beg leave to express my tliauks to the learned medallist in the 

 British Museum, Taylor Comhe, Esq. ; for Ills obliging courtesy in having 

 pointed out this Gem, as well as several coins ol' Cunobeliu, which were 

 before unknown to me. 



