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A permanent exhibit of Crossroad Threads · Admission is the joke itself
103 works · Five wings open · No flash photography
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Sphinx
The Pantheon · Stop No. 95

Sphinx

"She's Got Questions"
Era
Old Kingdom, older attitude
Provenance
Giza Plateau, outskirts of Thebes on weekends
Medium
Sepia woodcut on cotton
Edition
One riddle per patron

A portrait of antiquity's most demanding gatekeeper. The questions were famously simple, provided you had never panicked in your life. Wrong answers were not returned.

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