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Le Moro-sphinx possède une très longue trompe pour butiner les fleurs, en vol stationnaire à la manière des oiseaux-mouches. Il butine généralement le nectar des fleurs que les autres insectes ne peuvent atteindre. C'est un petit lépidoptère brun beige au corps trapu de la famille des Sphingidae ; il est égalemnt appelé Sphinx colibri ou Sphinx du caille-lait ; son nom scientifique est Macroglossum stellatarum.
The Moro-sphinx has a very long proboscis for foraging the flowers, hovering in the manner of hummingbirds. It usually forages the flower nectar that other insects can not reach. It is a small brown tepidopter with a stocky body of the family Sphingidae; it is also called Sphinx duck-milk; its scientific name is Macroglossum stellatarum.
The statue of this Archaic Sphinx (570-550 BC) was found in the city of Spata. The sphinx is a mythical creature. It has the body of a lion, the wings of a bird, and the head of a woman. The body of the sphinx is shown in profile, while the head turns to the front. It wears a garland on its head and a necklace around its neck.
The sphinx is made of Pentelic marble. It is on display in a small archaeological museum located at the Athens International Airport (iPhone SE).
Statue of a sphinx. Pentelic marble. Found in Spata, Attica. One of the earliest known Archaic Sphinxes, it was once used as finial of a grave stele. About 570 BC.
National Museum of Archaeology. Athens
هو يحرس الاهرامات الثلاثة
وهو عبارة عن وحش مصنوع من صخر راس انسان وجسم اسد
ونرى ان هناك نظرة غامضة لم يستطع احد تفسيرها وهى تنظر الى اقاصي الصحراء
وفيها نوع من التعالي
ويبغ ارتفاعة 18 متر
وطولة 57 مترا
وعمرة 5000 عاما
لماذا بني ابو الهول ؟؟
هناك بعض النقوش وضعها ملكان من الملوك القدامى
تقول ان ابو الهول يمثل احد اشكال الة الشمس
وتقول الغرض من هذا التمثال ابعاد جميع انواع الشر
عن المقبرة حو ل الاهرامات
ومعني كلمه ابو الهول بالفرعونيه (السيد)
اعيد اكتشاف أبو الهول من العالم الغربي عند مرور نابليون بمصر عام 1798 , و يوجد الكثر جداً من تماثيل أبي الهول حول العالم و غالبيتها في مصر و الجيزة
و بعضهم يعتبره ابن الهة الشمس المصرية (رع ) و هو بذلك يمثل القوة و الحكمة و كان رمزاً لوجود مصر القوي لقرون مضت ,الا أن هنالك نوعاً آخر من أبي الهول المصري و يكون على شكل كبش و هو تابع لاله آخر هو(آمون )
انه ( أنوبيس) حارس المقبرة و المسؤول عن التحنيط
نحت أبو الهول من الصخر الصلد البازلتي و لربما هيأ لك أن الرأس أصغر من الجسد ذلك لأن الجسد كان مدفوناً تحت الرمال فضل محتفظاً بهيكله متماسكاً من عوامل التعرية الصحراوية على عكس الرأس الذي دفن و كشف مرات عدة على مر القرون , ازيلت الرمال عن جسد أبي الهول تماماً في عام 1905 ليكشف عن جمال هذا التمثال
طول الأقدام 15 م و يصل الطول الكامل الى 45 م , ارتفاع الرأس 10 م و العرض 4 م ,و لأن تكوين التمثال من عدة طبقات بعضها أنعم من الأخرى فقد تآكلت بعض المناطق و احتفظت أخرى بشكلها و لذلك فقد فقدت الكثير من التفاصيل الدقيقة للشكل الأصلي
النظرية الأكثر شيوعاً أن الملك خفرع (2558-2532 BCE)من السلالة الملكية الرابعة هو من أمر ببناء أبي الهول , خفرع هو احد أبناء خوفو ( صاحب الهرم الأكبر ) و هنالك ممر مستقيم بين ابي الهول و الهرم الأوسط ( قبر خفرع )
لماذا ابو الهول بدون انف و أين اختفى ؟؟
الصوره توضح مدى الضرر الذي تعرض له الوجه على ايام نابليون
قيل ان الاتراك هم من حطم أنفه و لحيته , لكن القصة الاكثر شهرة و تصديقاً هي أن الأنف و اللحية ضحيتي طلقات مدفعية نابليون التدريبية , الا أنه بعد عدة طلقات لم ينجح سوى في تحطيم أنفه و لحيته و التسبب باضرار كبيرة لكن ابو الهول لم يتحطم وضل صامداً برغم كل شيء
It is a monster made of rock human head and body of a lion
We believe that there could not look mysterious one interpretation, a look at the ends of the Sahara
And a kind of transcendence
EPG height and 18 meters
And long, 57 meters
Umrah 5000-year-old
Why built the Sphinx??
There are some patterns developed two kings of the ancient kings
Says that the Sphinx is one form of the sun god
It says the purpose of this statue removal of all kinds of evil
Ho for the tomb pyramids
The meaning of the word Sphinx Balfronih (Mr.)
Re-discovery of the Sphinx of the Western world when the passage of Napoleon in Egypt in 1798, and there are very MOST sphinxes around the world, mostly in Egypt and Giza
And some of them considered Ibn goddess Egyptian sun (Ra) and is thus represents strength and wisdom and was a symbol of the presence of Egypt's strong for centuries, but that there is another kind of Sphinx of Egypt and the form of a ram and is a function of the God of another (AMON)
He (Anubis) guard the tomb and is responsible for mummification
Sculpture of the Sphinx of rock hard basalt and maybe created for you that the head is smaller than the body because the body was buried under the sand preferred to retain its structure intact from the erosion of desert in contrast to the head that was buried, and uncovered several times over the centuries, removed sand from the body of the Sphinx completely in 1905 to reveal the beauty of this statue
Length of foot in 1915 and reach full-length to 45 m height of the head in 1910 and supply 16 o'clock, and because the composition of the statue of several layers, some softer than others have been eroded some areas, and keep the other form, and therefore has lost a lot of the finer details of the original figure
The most common theory that the King Khafre (2558-2532 BCE) from the fourth dynasty is ordered the construction of the Sphinx, Khafre, the son of Khufu (the Great Pyramid) and there is a straight path between the Sphinx and the pyramid East (the tomb of Khafre)
Why the Sphinx without a nose, and where did he disappear??
A picture of the extent of the damage suffered by a face on the days of Napoleon
It was said that the Turks are broken nose and a beard, but the story the most famous and an endorsement is that the nose and beard, the victims of artillery shots Napoleon training, but after several shots had not only succeeded in breaking his nose and his beard and making a lot of damage but the Sphinx not broken deities steadfast despite everything
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560 BCE; an offering to Apollo in Delphi from the wealthy island of Naxos in the Cyclades. It stood on top of a tall column, reaching a total of 12.5 m high (front and side views are shown in the rendering on the wall at right). Sphinxes in the Archaic period were fierce guardians, warding off evil.
This sphinx statue is situated on Lauderdale House in Dunbar. This Category A listed building incorporates a central block from around 1740,built for Captain James Fall, a wealthy Dunbar merchant. The building was significantly enlarged built to the design of Robert Adam in 1790 - 1792 for the Earl of Lauderdale and the sphinx was added at that time.
This Plebeian Sphinx, also called the Trumpet Vine Sphinx, (Paratraea plebeja) was found under a leaflet of a Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans). Thanks Jo Solem for pointing out this uncommon caterpillar to me. I have no clue as to why its blue tail-horn is so short. Western Regional Park, Howard County, Maryland.
A formation a short stroll from my home, called Sphinx Rock. Shown on old Union Pacific Postcards, such as:
This clay head of Sphinx belonged to an acroterion from the Treasury of the Gelans, probably, created by a workshop in Magna Grecia.
Clay sculpture
2nd half of 6th century BC
From Magna Grecia, Sicily
Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Le Sphinx de Gizeh est la statue thérianthrope (créature mi-humaine et mi-animale) se dressant devant les grandes pyramides du plateau de Gizeh, en Basse-Égypte. Cette sculpture monumentale monolithique est la plus grande du monde avec 73,5 m de longueur, 14 m de largeur et 20 m de hauteur, et représente un sphinx couchant. Réalisée vers 2 500 av. JC, elle est attribuée à Khéphren, l'un des pharaons de la IVème dynastie de l'Ancien Empire (ou à son père, Chéops ?).
D'une masse d'environ 20 000 tonnes, cette sculpture monumentale est taillée dans un promontoire naturel de 40 m de hauteur dans la roche calcaire nummulitique déposée au Cénozoïque puis buriné par le Nil. Sa tête est taillée dans un piton de calcaire dur et gris sur lequel sont construites les trois pyramides, qui était vraisemblablement déjà vénéré aux temps pré-pharaoniques. Il se trouve en avant de la grande carrière qui a fourni nombre de blocs à la pyramide. Sa tête est tournée vers le levant.
Le corps du Sphinx, sculpté dans la couche sous-jacente de calcaire plus tendre, pourrait être celui d'un lion couché et la tête celle d'un souverain portant le némès, le front orné d'un uræus. La transition entre la tête et le corps est masquée par la coiffure. Les côtés de son corps sont flanqués de quatre piédestaux de construction tardive, découverts lors de son désensablement par Auguste Mariette vers 1850, l'égyptologue français mettant au jour à cette occasion les fragments d'une statue d’Osiris qui devait être installée sur le piédestal principal.
Longtemps identifié au pharaon Khéphren, fils de Chéops, son visage pourrait en fait représenter Chéops lui-même comme l'indiqueraient plusieurs indices, comme l'observation de sa coiffe, la largeur de son menton carré, la forme de ses oreilles ou sa barbe de cérémonie. Cependant, ces comparaisons morphologiques et stylistiques révèlent leurs limites, la tête du Sphinx étant trop endommagée (nez absent, yeux rapiécés, bouche et oreille abîmées). Le Sphinx devait assurer une fonction de gardien du site, peut-être plus précisément du temple solaire édifié à côté de la pyramide de Chéops (cf. wikipédia, merci programmetv.ouest-france.fr).
The Sphinx in front of the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, as seen on a very untouristed morning at Giza. Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty.
La iglesia de San Pedro de la Rúa en Estella (Navarra) está situada frente al Museo Gustavo de Maeztu, donde se alza una escalinata que lleva hasta la portada de este monumento que ya en el siglo XIII era conocido como San Pedro el Mayor. Se le menciona como parroquia desde 1174, aunque es posible que existiera anteriormente. En 1256 alcanzó el título de iglesia mayor de la ciudad.
La fachada data de mediados del siglo XIII, con grandes similitudes con las portadas de las cercanas iglesias de San Román de Cirauqui, y la de Santiago en Puente la Reina.
En sus capiteles y arquivoltas encontramos una rica decoración de carácter vegetal, geométrico y figurativo. Sobre las jambas de la puerta una rica figuración de origen clásico y de tipo escatológico, con sirena, centauro, arpías y grifos.
El interior presenta formas constructivas originadas en el último cuarto del siglo XII, de cuando se conserva la cabecera del templo. Las naves son del siglo XIII y el ventanal de tracería gótica, situado en el muro norte de la iglesia, en su primer cuerpo y dentro de la torre, del siglo XV. Las cubiertas de las naves son de los siglos XVI y XVII. Cobija diversas obras entre las que cabe destacar el retablo de la Virgen del Rosario (primera mitad del siglo XVII), en cuya hornacina central se encuentra una imagen de la Virgen de la O, datable en el siglo XIV.
La capilla de San Andrés, patrono de la ciudad, está construida con formas barrocas a partir de 1706. El retablo, realizado a finales del siglo XVIII, es una fábrica de estilo rococó.
Destaca el retablo del Crucificado, del siglo XVII, que contienen en su hornacina principal una talla del Cristo en la cruz de carácter románico, datable en el siglo XIII. En el Presbiterio se encuentra una imagen de la Virgen de Belén, talla de finales del siglo XIII, procedente de la cercana iglesia del Santo Sepulcro. Otros retablos son el de San Nicolás y el de la Santísima Trinidad, fábrica del siglo XVII.
En el sotocoro, bajo el ventanal de la torre, se halla una bella sillería barroca y una pila bautismal de factura propia del siglo XII, único objeto litúrgico del edificio primitivo. Sobre las paredes cuelgan lienzos atribuibles al siglo XVII, de desigual calidad técnica.
El claustro, de planta cuadrada y del que sólo se conservan las galerías occidental y septentrional, está fechado en torno al año 1170. Fue parcialmente demolido, de forma accidental, en 1572 por la demolición del castillo de Zaratambor, que estaba a un lado de la iglesia, por parte de las tropas castellanas en la Conquista de Navarra. Sus capiteles, de primer orden en cuanto a calidad escultórica, acogen manos de distintos artistas que nos muestran la importancia del Camino de Santiago en la difusión de nuevas formas estéticas. Se alternan elementos historiados de la vida de Santos (entre ellos, la historia de San Andrés) y de Cristo (Anunciación, Encarnación, Pasión y Resurrección), junto a formas simbólicas de animales (arpías, sirenas aladas, esfinges) y vegetales.
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The church of San Pedro de la Rúa in Estella (Navarra) is located in front of the Gustavo de Maeztu Museum, where there is a staircase that leads to the front of this monument that was already known as San Pedro el Mayor in the 13th century. It has been mentioned as a parish since 1174, although it is possible that it existed previously. In 1256 it reached the title of largest church in the city.
The façade dates from the mid-13th century, with great similarities to the façades of the nearby churches of San Román de Cirauqui, and that of Santiago in Puente la Reina.
In its capitals and archivolts we find a rich decoration of vegetal, geometric and figurative character. On the door jambs a rich figuration of classical origin and eschatological type, with a mermaid, centaur, harpies and griffins.
The interior presents constructive forms originating in the last quarter of the 12th century, from when the head of the temple is preserved. The naves are from the 13th century and the Gothic tracery window, located on the north wall of the church, in its first body and inside the tower, from the 15th century. The naves' roofs are from the 16th and 17th centuries. It houses various works, including the altarpiece of the Virgen del Rosario (first half of the 17th century), in whose central niche there is an image of the Virgen de la O, dating from the 14th century.
The chapel of San Andrés, patron saint of the city, is built in baroque forms from 1706. The altarpiece, made at the end of the 18th century, is a rococo-style factory.
The altarpiece of the Crucified one stands out, from the 17th century, which contains in its main niche a carving of Christ on the cross of a Romanesque character, dating from the 13th century. In the Presbytery there is an image of the Virgin of Bethlehem, a carving from the late 13th century, from the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Other altarpieces are that of San Nicolás and that of the Santísima Trinidad, a 17th-century factory.
In the basement, under the tower's window, there is a beautiful Baroque stalls and a baptismal font built in the 12th century, the only liturgical object of the primitive building. On the walls hang canvases attributable to the seventeenth century, of uneven technical quality.
The cloister, with a square plan and of which only the western and northern galleries are preserved, is dated around the year 1170. It was partially demolished, accidentally, in 1572 by the demolition of the castle of Zaratambor, which was next to the church, by the Castilian troops in the Conquest of Navarra. Its capitals, of the first order in terms of sculptural quality, welcome the hands of different artists who show us the importance of the Camino de Santiago in the dissemination of new aesthetic forms. Storied elements of the life of Saints (among them, the story of Saint Andrew) and of Christ (Annunciation, Incarnation, Passion and Resurrection) alternate, along with symbolic forms of animals (harpies, winged mermaids, sphinxes) and plants.
Sphinx and Khafre's pyramid with the 18th Dynasty temple built by Amenhotep II (1425-1401 BC) in the foreground. In the temple, Amenhotep II paid homage to both Khufu & Khafre.
This amphitheater is guarded by two sphinxes sculpted by Paul Manship, the same artist who created Rockefeller Center’s Prometheus.
Built and designed by Ryan, he chose to build the Sphinx as it would've orgininally been seen, complete with nose and headdress.
Sphinx colibri, parc des rapides à LaSalle. (il est moins nette car il ventait beaucoup mais il était tellement beau).
Re-edit using Oct 2023 version of Lightroom's new AI Denoise. On this pic it seemed to work better than my attempts using Topaz Denoise AI.
the Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest structure created from a single piece of stone. It is also a figure synonymous with ancient Egyptian culture and remains shrouded in mystery.
With dimensions of 65 feet (20m) high, 260 feet (57m) long, and 20 feet (6m) wide
The Great Sphinx has the body of a lion and the face of a man (king?). The age of the sphinx is not known, with guesses varying between six-thousand and even thirteen-thousand years old. The commonly-held belief is that is was created during the 2700s BC,
Deux sphinx qui s'affrontent, à corps de lion et ailes d'oiseau, long cou encapuchonné d'une curieuse cagoule du type cotte de mailles.
Tourist exploring the area around the Sphinx Observatory.
The Sphinx Observatory is an astronomical observatory located above the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. It is named after the Sphinx, a rocky summit on which it is located. At 3,571 m above mean sea level, it is one of the highest observatories in the world. Accessible to the public, it is also the second highest observation deck in Switzerland.
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