Page Title: The Sphinx

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 25)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page with a photograph of the Sphinx in Egypt with two men standing on its paws for scale. The image is annotated with information about the monument's history and mythology

Subjects: Egypt travel photography Abū al-Hawl Sphinxes

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations: Next to the Pyramids the most famous monument of this vast necropolis. It is in the shape of a recumbent lion with the head of a man. Its entire height from the pavement on which it rests is 66 feet, but it is always partially covered with sand. The ear is 4 1/2 ft the nose 5 ft 7- whole face is 13 ft 8 in wide. it was in perfect preservation as late as the twelfth century. It was mutilated at a comparitively recent period by an iconoclastic shêkh and afterwards by the barbarous Mamelukes who used as a target. In Egypt the Sphinx is always masculine, the Greeks and Romans call the Sphinx Amarchis or Horus on the Horizon [sun rising] the Arabs have given it the name of"abûl hôl"- Father of Terror- or"belhit"- The Watchful.

Language: English, photograph has French title

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1: Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.

Title: No. 11 Le Sphinx Amachis

Caption: The Sphinx