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Jungfraujoch is a col or saddle between the Mönch and the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais.
Strictly, the Jungfraujoch is the lowest point on the mountain ridge between Mönch and Jungfrau, at 3,471 meters (11,388 ft). It is just above this location that the mountain station of Jungfraubahn is located, Jungfraujoch railway station, which at an elevation of 3,454 meters (11,332 ft) is the highest railway station in Europe. The Jungfraujoch is often called the "Top of Europe" in tourist literature.
Not far east of the Joch rises a peak called the Sphinx, which tops out at an elevation of 3,571 meters (11,716 ft). It begins from the Jungfraujoch on the Valais side and at the Great Aletsch Glacier. There is an elevator to the summit of the Sphinx, where a small viewing platform and a scientific observatory, the Sphinx Observatory, are located.
The Jungfraujoch is also home to one of the Global Atmosphere Watch's atmospheric research stations. The Jungfraujoch can only be accessed through a 7.3 km long cog railway tunnel, served by the Jungfraubahn, the highest in a series of cooperating railway companies that provide access to the Jungfraujoch from Interlaken.
In November 1916 the sphinx was moved indoors to the Penn Museum’s 2nd floor above the entrance to what is now Harrison Auditorium. It remained there until 1926 when it was moved to the Coxe Wing.
Interesting 1930s postcard view of the Sphinx with the telltale excavation at the front of the paws.
Published by "Lehnert and Landrock" (L&L Succ, Cairo)
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Can be viewed slightly larger.
Two Sphinxes in front of the Casino dei Principe (The House of the Princes), Villa Torlonia, Rome.
The four winged Sphinxes, from an original group of six, of which two are now in the Villa of Federico Zeri in Mentana, come from the complex’s park. Set on a stone base, they stood, in pairs, at the entrance to the Villa. After the entrance was demolished in the early 1900s, so that the Via Nomentana could be widened, the travertine sculptures, with their wings partially removed, were placed at the entrance to the House of the Princes. The sculptures were made by Clemente Massimi and Girolamo Sartorio (three each), to a design by the architect Giuseppe Valadier, in the early years of the nineteenth century.
Source: Museivillatorlonia.it.
Standing down on the beach at ANZAC Cove looking back up at the Sphinx - named after the Sphinx in Egypt where the ANZACs had been training prior to the Gallipoli campaign.
The Gallipoli campaign started April 25th 1915.
Augmentation gone wrong. Went way too big. Over the muscle instead of under. Implants separated and spread apart. While I didn't touch them, I could tell just by looking that they were hard as a rock.
Compare to the sphinxes (with smaller breasts and more muscles) at the earlier Woolworth Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx.
Link: www.flickr.com/photos/mclink/1426432312/
Also compare to the even earlier Tate Mausoleum in Bellafontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, MO.
Link: www.flickr.com/photos/11581147@N06/3569241795/
Note the clearly masculine and bearded Tate Sphinx. It is an interesting progression from 1908 to 1930 as the sphinxes go from clearly masculine to clearly feminine, with the Woolworth Sphinxes being something of an intermediate stage, heavily muscled, but female.
Douglas Keister credits the rather buxom nature of these sphinx to the Greek influence, as Greek sphinx were female. Link: www.douglaskeister.com/going/detail.np/detail-81.html