| India has topes and pagodas, Egypt sphinxes and hypostyle chambers, Greece three orders of columns. |
| It includes military barracks, an avenue of sphinxes and royal palaces. |
| The construction is shaped like a pyramid, its entrance guarded by giant sphinxes. |
| The really ancient part of the structure begins with the rows of sphinxes which border the road behind the propylon. |
| Its iconography was fanciful until the end of the 18th century when new archeological interests changed the representations of sphinxes. |
| A riot of sphinxes with human feet, animal-headed human figures, exotic beasts, lotus flowers, and winged sun disks appeared on furnishings and decorative objects. |
