Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rs the same royal name as isfound in the Great Pyramid; and is supposed tobe that of some officer of the court. Others belongedto priests and private individuals. A long day willquickly pass, and may be well spent, in examiningthe relics upon this square mile of desert sand. The Sphiux is a monument so unique in theworld, that it may be reserved as the crowningglory of the clay. Its solemn; upturned face; thoughso rudely injured by the savage hand of man; stilllooks in calm maiestv toward the rising sun. Thefeatures are Nubian, and the traces of the brown-red colour which once covered them still remain.The excavations show that this was originally acolossal figure of a sedent human-headed lion, wear- CAIRO AND THE PYRAMIDS, 73 ing a royal crown with the sacred asp in front. Fragments of a plaited beard were found in the sands below it, which does away with its once conceived feminine character. It is entirely cut from the solid %i rock, except in a few places where that was defective;
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the cap and the fore legs have, therefore, been addedin hewn stone. Mr. Salt and Sign or Caviglia exca-vated the upper portion and the entire front of thefigure; and Colonel Howard Yyse continued thelabour, which satisfactorily proved that the Sphinx E 74 UP THE NILS. had a sacred character, a Greek inscription uponone of its paws alluding to it as the guardian ofthe country and its king; it is signed Arrianos/3and thus restored and translated by Dr. Young :— Thy form stupendous here the gods have placed,Sparing each spot of harvest-bearing land; And ^ith this mighty work of art have gracedA rocky isle encumbered once with sand :And near the Pyramids have bid thee stand : Not that fierce Sphinx that Thebes erewhile laid waste,But great Latonas servant, mild and bland; Watching that prince beloved, who fills the throne Of Egypts plains, and calls the Nile his own. That heavenly monarch who his foes defies), Like Vulcan powerful (and like Pallas wise). Between its paws the Sphinx orig

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