Sphinx
The sphinx is a hybrid creature of Greek mythology whose antecedents go back to Egyptian religion and to certain representations found in the Middle East, especially in Assyria and Babylonia. In the Greek version, the sphinx has the head and breasts of a woman, the body and feet of a lion, and the wings of a bird. The Egyptians depicted it as a lion lying on its belly with its forelegs extended and the head of a man. Among the Assyrians and Babylonians it could take indistinctly the form of a lion with the bust and head of a man, or that of a lioness with the head and bust of a woman.