Sphinxes. med: 35x52x3 cm. These polychrome glazed brick panels from the palace of Darius I at Susa. of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty. V century BC, are two sphinxes with winged lion's body and a human head. Animals with human heads, hiciero its appearance in the Neo-Sumerian period, later dynastic reliefs as human-headed bulls. These sphinxes, guardian deities, wear a headdress divine, serene and benevolent expressio...