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hieracosphinx - n., a sphinx with the head of a hawk.


With the usual body of a lion. This is another Herodotus coinage for describing Egyptian religious sculpture (from Greek hierax, hawk). Unlike the criosphinx, the hieracosphinx was adopted by European heraldry, though not as a common charge.

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