Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Recataloged to 21-213, accession number 8-5213, described as Cast of double-faced sphinx. Twice. Its decorative use, perhaps, as a lid handle made its execution with a double front advantageous. Early art was accustomed to creatures with two bodies or faces. These representations are without mysterious meaning. They derive from the primitive draughtman’s instinct for featuring both sides of his subject, fish, bird, quadruped or man. From an early Greek bronze figure found and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia IV Plate 48. Friederichs-Wolters 368.