A butterfly flying out of a cup featuring ivory carved animal heads can be seen on the right of a painting in which a red beaded necklace is wrapped around this figure's waist.  
This figure sits next to a man shielding his eyes from the sun in the Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture Egypt's Renaissance.  A butterfly flying out of a cup featuring ivory carved animal heads can be seen on the right of a painting in which a red beaded necklace is wrapped around this figure's waist.  That painting sees this figure press its body up against a man who holds a long orange spear against the ground.  Another depiction of this figure features a skeleton among rocks at its bottom and sees this figure stare into the eyes of a nude man leaning on a large boulder.  Those paintings of this figure by Moreau and Ingres are less famous than a sculpture which was supposedly vandalized by Sa'im al-Dahr and which stands near the pyramid of Khafra.  For 10 points, name this figure, often depicted while telling its famous riddle to Oedipus.
This figure sits next to a man shielding his eyes from the sun in the Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture Egypt's Renaissance.  
the sphinx