Whilst in London for 2012 I am trying to seek out Egyptianising monuments around the city. Although I'd seen "Cleopatra's Needle" on the Thames Embankment a few years ago I'd previously failed to note a group of benches set up next to the obelisk in the form of elaborate winged female sphinxes, wearing the nemes-headdress with uraeus. The benches have individual plaques recording their donors, who include W. H. Smith.
