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Statues of Amenemhat III

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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000037

Page Title: Hycsos Sphinx[es]

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 36)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page containing a photograph of Egyptian sphinx statues, annotated with information about the statues. The page also includes three drawings of cartouches and information about the Hyksos dynasty.

Subjects: Egyptian (ancient) statue
Sphinxes

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations: Mariette 1863. Considered by him "comme des produits de l'art des Pasteurs." [‘to be the works of the art of the Shepherds, i.e., the Hyksos’] "These differ from other Egyptian monuments in a very marked way as one sees by comparing them with the Sphinx[es] of Tutmes III and Ramses II. The face is round, the eyes are small, the nose flattened, the cheek bones projecting, the lower lip sliphtly advanced, the ears are those of a bull while the mane of a lion encircles the visage." [« Ils se distinguent en effet des autres maonuments par des caractères bien tranchés, comme on le reconnaîtra sans peine, si l'on compare leur tête à celle des sphinx de Thoutmôsis III et de Ramsès II. La face est ronde, les yeux sont petits, les narines écrasées, les pommettes saillantes: la lèvre inférieure avance légèrement ; les oreilles sont celles du taureau, et une crinière de lion encadre le visage. »][1] On one of them one can descipher the name of the Shepherd King Apopi [Apepa]. Later Meneptah erased the name and substituted his cartouches. Still later Pasebxanu XXI dynasty put his name on the breast [place of honor] erasing that of the monarch for whom it was graven. This gives ground for a German theory that it antedates "les Pasteurs" [Shepherds] and belongs to XII. Dynasty.

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XVI. Dynasty
Hyksos.

Apepa.

XIX Dynasty
B.C. 1400
Thebes

Meneptah[,] pharoah of Exodus.

XXI Dynasty
Tanis

Pasebxanu I.
B.C. 1100.

Language: English and French, photograph titled in French

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: Sébah, J. Pascal

Title: 215 Sphinx Hycsos (Musée Ghizeh)

Caption: Hycsos Sphinx[es.] Excavations Tanis. Black Granite.

Date: ca. 1888-1890


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  • User: Boston Public Library BPL
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December 21, 1892—March 8, 1893

  • Flickr upload date: 2008-05-01 17:13:15
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  1. ↑ Gaston Maspero. 1902. Guide du visiteur au Musée du Caire

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