The Sphynx: Sometimes called "Aboolhol" The Father of Immensity, or Terror - is supposed to have been carved from the mountain by Thotmoses IV. - 1446 years B.C. - but more probably very much earlier.
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The Sphynx: Sometimes called "Aboolhol" The Father of Immensity, or Terror - is supposed to have been carved from the mountain by Thotmoses IV. - 1446 years B.C. - but more probably very much earlier.
From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."
ca. 1852
Salted paper print
15.9 x 20.1 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "The Sphynx: Sometimes called 'Aboolhol' the
father of Immensity, or Terror - is supposed to have been carved from
the mountain by Thotmoses IV. - 1446 years B.C. - but more probably
very much earlier. Circumfrence of head: : 102 feet Length of Leonine
back : : 143 (feet) Height: : 63 (feet)"
"With raised head it gazes expectantly towards the East - never
dropping its eyes when Cambyses, or Napoleon came. The nose is gone -
so is the upper portion of the head-dress - and all the beard: ..."
father of Immensity, or Terror - is supposed to have been carved from
the mountain by Thotmoses IV. - 1446 years B.C. - but more probably
very much earlier. Circumfrence of head: : 102 feet Length of Leonine
back : : 143 (feet) Height: : 63 (feet)"
"With raised head it gazes expectantly towards the East - never
dropping its eyes when Cambyses, or Napoleon came. The nose is gone -
so is the upper portion of the head-dress - and all the beard: ..."
