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Excavations around the Archaic Temple of Apollo in Corinth in the 1960s and 1970s uncovered forty-eight fragments oflarge-scale terracotta sphinxes.'Possibly from acroteria of the temple roof, the fragments date from the 6th to at least the mid-5th century B.C. The publication of these pieces provides an opportunity to review the corpus of sphinxes, together with their stylistic development, and to discuss how they were made. The latest and best-preserved statue shows that this tradition did not end in the Archaic period. A small appendix of fragments from earlier excavations of Corinth completes the picture of Corinth's productivity in terracotta sphinxes.It has long been acknowledged that Corinth was a major center for the production of terracotta sculpture. Statues made in its workshops are known from Olympia, Delphi, Thebes, Halai, Athens, Kerkyra, and possibly from Samos and from Sane-Ouranoupolis in the Khalkidike.2 In addition, To Henry S. Robinson 1993, 1995, 1997, and especially the report by Tsigarida (1997, pp. 335-336), who tentatively suggests that the statues might be Corinthian. The Kerkyrean sculptures are presented by Dontas (1997, pp. 87-88); among them, a head from Mon Repos, MR-818, which Dontas attributes to a Nike acroterion, may be an antefix, as suggested by P G. Kalligas (1968, p. 307). Billot (1977, p. 387) states that except for the sphinxes from Athens and Kalapodhi, all terracotta sphinxes were made in Corinth. To her exceptions I would add sphinx I from Olympia; possibly sphinx II (OlForsch XXII, pp. 104-115); and the sphinx from Colonna Hill, Aigina (Alt-Agina II, 4, pp. 13-15, figs. 3-4, pl. 9:a-c), if the inclusions are indeed volcanic, as stated in that publication. This content downloaded from 169.229.32.138 on Fri, 9 May 2014 20:37:08 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions NANCY BOOKIDISterracotta sphinxes from Kalydon, if not made locally by Corinthians, were probably made under Corinthian inspiration. All of this exported material was apparently designed as architectural decoration for temples, treasuries, and stoas. With the exception of several pedimental groups from Corinth, and perhaps one from Kerkyra,4 the remaining pieces are acroteria and take the form of animals, chiefly sphinxes, nikai, or combatant figures. In 1957 Saul S. Weinberg published his important work on the terracotta sculpture from Corinth, cataloguing forty-eight pieces ...
