Then he closed the box and set it between the huge front paws of the stone sphinx.
Nearby a large stone sphinx commemorates the North's victory, with the inscription "American Union Preserved, African Slavery Destroyed."
Four inscriptions have been found in the temple, on two small human statues and on either side of a small stone sphinx.
The memorial, dedicated in 1921 and opened in 1926, is a 217-foot obelisklike tower jutting upward out of a plaza, framed by stone sphinxes representing Memory and the Future, and two tomblike exhibition buildings.
Jacobs had not one but two stone sphinxes to commemorate him.
A stone sphinx seemed to absorb the light.
In the center stood a small stone sphinx, greeting all visitors with a placid, but stony, gaze.
The Sphinx of Memphis is a stone sphinx located near the remains of Memphis, Egypt.
An early work there by the then 13-year-old was a stone sphinx, carved into the sandstone cliffs overlooking Puget Sound.
About a third of the way up the pyramid's flanks a crackling blue zigzag arced out and struck itself on a stone sphinx.
