Abstract:
The image of the sphinx on the cover of Scholia is derived from a hitherto unpublished Attic black-figure fragment in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Natal, Durban. After a description of the fragment and consideration of its attribution, the broader range of circumstances in which sphinxes occur in the vase-painting and sculpture of the archaic period is summarised in an attempt to determine the likely signification of the Durban sphinx in both its archaeological and cover-plate manifestations
