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This old painting of the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza was done by David Roberts in 1839. It's interesting to note the accurate detail of the eastern face of Khafre's pyramid when compared with a photo from today.
Berlin, Dussmann Culture Department Store, August 2014
A monumental sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut. Part of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin, it is temporarily on display in the Dussmann Culture Department Store in Friedrichstrasse, before it will be moved to its new location in the currently renovated Pergamon Museum.
ÄM 2299. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (c. 1480 – 1460 BCE). From her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri. Pink granite with traces of paint. H. 131 cm.
I'm not sure the host plant this Sphinx was on. I am wondering if it is okay or if it might have been parasitized. The dark spot looks odd.....turns out it is a PawPaw Sphinx that was perfectly healthy :)
Plus rare que le Moro sphinx et encore plus beau avec ses couleurs vives, le Sphinx gazé ou encore Sphinx du chèvre feuille... Son comportement est le même que celui du Moro sphinx...
Le "Gazé" doit son nom commun à la transparence de ses ailes. L'appellation scientifique fait quant' à elle référence à la bordure rougeâtre desdites ailes (Hemaris), et d'autre part à l'abondante pilosité de la bestiole, laquelle lui donne un aspect "en forme de bourdon" (fuciformis).
En regard de la coloration plutôt "tristounette" du Moro-sphinx, la livrée du Gazé se fait joliment polychrome et plus conforme au plumage souvent très coloré des colibris, également connus sous le nom d' "oiseaux-mouches".
Le Sphinx-Gazé ou Sphinx du chèvrefeuille – Hemaris fuciformis est une espèce de papillon de la famille des Sphingidae, très proche du Moro-Sphinx avec lequel il partage de nombreux caractères. Avec une envergure qui varie entre 40 et 47 millimètres, l’adulte du Sphinx-Gazé a des ailes presqu’entièrement dépourvues d’écailles comme chez les autres lépidoptères; ses ailes sont plutôt transparentes marquées par une large bande marginale brun-rouge.
Le corps du Sphinx du chèvrefeuille est ramassé et dominé par une couleur vert olivâtre, une ceinture abdominale brun-rouge et des touffes latérales de poils blancs et noirs, des détails visibles en photographie ou quand ce papillon est au repos. Le Sphinx-Gazé se rencontre particulièrement les long des orées forestières, dans les bois clairs, les prés-bois secs, sur les pelouses maigres mais aussi les jachères pauvres et particulièrement sur les terrains riches en calcaire. L’espèce est en forte régression dans une bonne partie de l’Europe.
À la différence des autres Sphinx, Le Sphinx-Gazé (Hemaris fuciformis) et le Moro-Sphinx présentent une activité diurne. Comme des bourdons, ces deux Sphinx butinent activement les fleurs en plein jour sans jamais se poser; ils butinent en vol stationnaire. Très difficile à photographier en raison de son hyper-mobilité et de son hyper-activité, le Sphinx-Gazé de croise dans toute l’Europe : de l’Angleterre au Caucase jusqu’à l’ouest de la Sibérie. Dans les zones montagneuses, il peut s’élever à deux milles mètres d’altitude.
Created for GhostWorks Dictionary Challenge
Texture with thanks to Shadowhouse Creations
Sphinx from public domain
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Ensevelie sous des couches de sable au fil des siècles à Louxor, cette allée des sphinx, dite dromos, reliait les temples d'Amon et de Karnak sur près de 2,5 km. Nectanébo 1er, premier pharaon de la XXXème dynastie (-378-360 av. JC) fit remplacer ceux représentant Amenhotep III par des sphinx à son effigie. Mais il n'en reste aujourd'hui que les deux extrémités.
La première trace de l'allée a été trouvée en 1949 avec huit statues près du temple de Louxor. Dix-sept autres statues ont ensuite été mises au jour de 1958 à 1961 et cinquante-cinq de 1961 à 1964, toutes dans un périmètre de 250 m. À l'origine, l'avenue était bordée dans tout son long de 1 057 statues, dont 807 en forme de sphinx et 250 autres avec une tête en forme de bélier.
Celles-ci sont représentées sous trois formes. La première, érigée entre les temple de Karnak et temple de Mout pendant le règne du souverain Toutânkhamon, avait un corps de lion avec une tête de bélier. La seconde avait une statue de bélier complète, construite dans une zone éloignée pendant la XVIIIe dynastie d'Amenhotep III, avant d'être transférée plus tard dans le complexe de Karnak. La troisième comprenait la plus grande partie des statues avec un corps d'un lion et une tête d'homme et s'étendaient toutes jusqu'au temple de Louxor (cf. wikipédia, merci Bernard Dupont pour la photo).
There is a row of sphinxes (grade I listed) amongst the Cedars of Lebanon.
£12 million was spent on the restoration of Chiswick House Gardens which reopened in 2010 .
Sphinx on the london embankment, you can see the London Eye and to the right corner Big Ben... It was a funny sky thought it was going to rain then a bit of blue emerged the sun was hiding itself..
This sphinx is one of a pair which stand fairly near Parliament, and between them stands "Cleopatra's Needle". The sphinxes are recent castings and Cleopatra's Needle doesn't really have anything to do with the Egyptian Queen of the same name, however it is a genuine Egyptian obelisk dating from the reign of Thutmoses III around 1450BC. It was one of a pair found in Heliopolis and given to the British as a gift in 1819 by the Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali, but they refused to pay for it to be transported until 1877. The pontoon it was on capsized during a storm off France and six people died, but it remained floating and it was eventually towed to London. The other obelisk of the pair is in Central Park in New York city. The damage you can see on this sphinx's pedestal was caused by a bomb during the war - the first world war! This happened on September 4 1917, during the first raid made by German planes against London. There's similar damage from world war two preserved on the walls of the Victoria and Albert museum.
A very sphinx-like butte on the road to Lee's Ferry, just north of Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon in northern Arizona.
Plate done with slightly pinky clay. Decoration painted in black color now slightly changed into a brown-red tonality. The lower half is decorated with an ornament, like cloves, painted long the rays of a half circle The upper half: a sphinx moving towards right; geometrical patterns filling the empty space between the main figure and the frame.
Ionic Rhodian black-figure plate
About 600-575 BC
From Kamiros
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Amazingly, this mountain top has been hollowed to fit an elevator from the train station and ice Palace.
While working out at the farm I was surprised to see this little fellow flying around me. This sphinx moth was only about 1/2 inch long and was very difficult to keep track of let alone shoot. I took about 20 pictures of it as it flitted about and this was the only one that really came out.
Sphinx crowing a grave stele. In the hollow moulding traces of red and blue from painted floral decoration.
The sphinx was found in Athens Kerameikon area by German archaeologists, near two other sculptures representing a kouros, known as the “Sacred Gate Kouros”, and a lion. These archaic marble sculptures which originally had stood on grave precincts of the Athenian aristocracy, had been destroyed by the Persians in 480 B.C. and buried under the walls when the Sacred Gate was erected in the Themistoclean age.
Archaic Greek sculpture
560 - 550 BC
Athens, Keramikos, Museum
Un des sphinx (ou sphinges) décorant l’entrée du Trianon du Comte d’Artois (frère de Louis XIV et futur Charles X) dans les jardins de Bagatelle.
Bois de Boulogne (75)
Sculpteur Phillippe-Laurent Roland
Daté de 1781.
Conforme à la mode parisienne des Antiquités égyptiennes, que la France pré-révolutionnaire commençait à apprécier.
Quelques années seulement avant l’expédition d’Egypte de Bonaparte (1798-1801) qui popularisera les sphinx sous cette forme assise dans la décoration architecturale des bâtiments du XIXème siècle.
On pourrait d’ailleurs construire un album photo complet des sphinx versaillais ou parisiens depuis la fin du XVIIème siècle, et dont les représentations évoluent sensiblement au fil du temps… Il va falloir que j’y songe.
Marble support shaped as a Sphinx. Roman artwork from a original Greek sculpture dating from BC 450 – 440.
The Sphinx is a mythical creature offspring of Echidna (or Chimaera) and Orthus. The Sphinx is a hybrid of different animal and human parts; she is most often depicted as having a lion’s torso topped by a human head, male or female according to the source, and she is also sometimes given wings. The Sphinx protects a specific terrain or location. In Sophocles, the Sphinx was a guardian of Theban territory. In Hesiod’s Theogony, the Sphinx is called destroyer of the Cadmeians, because she would devour all who passed and failed to answer a riddle correctly.
Source: Roman L., Greek and Roman Mythology.
Roman marble sculpture
(Height 59,8 cm)
I century AD
Basel, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammmlung Ludwig
Exhibition “Monsters”
Roma, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
The Sphinx at The Luxor.
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Sphinx ligustri Linnaeus, 1758
Bombycoidea▸Sphingidae▸Sphinginae▸Sphingini
Privet hawk moth (EN), Ligusterschwärmer (DE)
Photo captured in the wild, under natural light, in Austria.
The Sphinx in the foreground, and one of the main Giza pyramids in the background. Nothing particularly unique about this photo; I included it only because I wanted to provide some indication of the scale and location of the two famous objects.
Note: this photo was published in a French Terra Nova blog titled "L’Egypte sous l’Ancien Empire." It was also published in an Apr 5, 2010 blog titled "Top 10 Family Vacation Spots." It was also published in an Apr 19, 2010 blog titled "Travel Monday - Cairo, Egypt." And it was published in a Jun 11, 2010 blog titled "f [フリー画像] 建築・建造物, 遺跡, ピラミッド, エジプト, スフィンクス." It was also published in an Aug 27, 2010 blog titled Egypt's Solution to Cairo's Congestion: Build More Cairos." And it was published in an Oct 18, 2010 blog titled "10. Stick to what made the company successful in the past."
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (early Aug 2011) Best Flights blog about flights to/from Cairo. And it was published in a Nov 19, 2011 blog titled "Pictures of Egypt Pyramids."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Mar 30, 2012 blog titled "動いているモノが仕様." It was also published in a Sep 4, 2012 blog titled "Cairo – A jóia do Nilo." And it was published in a Nov 3, 2012 blog titled "Free Educational Technology: Exploring Giza 3D."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in a May 22, 2014 blog titled "Cosa fare in Egitto."
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These photographs were taken on Dec 18, 2008 during a tour that included the Sphinx, the 4,500-year old Cheops pyramid, and the two nearby, smaller pyramids known as Chephren and Mycerinus on the Giza Plateau -- as well as a visit to the Solar Boat Museum on the north side of Cheops to see the 141-foot reassembled funerary boat for Pharoah Cheops.