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Hillwood was the estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post. It is now a museum, surrounded by extensive gardens. This sphinx is an 18th-century French sculpture.
Dans la mythologie égyptienne, le mot sphinx désigne un être hybride, symbolisant l'union du dieu solaire Rê (corps de lion) et du pharaon (tête humaine, parfois tête de faucon ou de bélier).
Hyles lineata, White-lined Sphinx Moth also known as a Hummingbird Moth. This was on my hanging basket of petunias outside of my business.
for my published set. Scanned from a photo and reconverted from TIFF.
The sphinx was not at all what I had expected.
Bobbin Head National Park - Sphinx walking track.
Description:
Hewn from surrounding bush sandstone by 5756 Pte. W. T. Shirley as a memorial to fallen A.I.F. comrades, the Sphinx is approximately 1/8th the size of the Great Sphinx, located on Egypt’s Giza Plateau.
Pte. William Shirley was a patient of the Lady Davidson Convalescent Hospital for returned World War One Australian veterans. He sailed to war in January 1916 and served with the 13th Btn A.I.F. (the “Two Blues” – as a result of the Battalion’s two tone blue colour patch). Like many of his comrades at Lady Davidson he suffered from gas inflicted during the fierce battles on the Western Front - with the added complications of a tuberculosis infection.
Between 1926- 1928, an ailing William Shirley laboured at creating his personal memorial to his fallen A.I.F comrades. The Sphinx took some one and a half years to complete. He died in 1929, leaving an unusual legacy in stone to be contemplated by the many bushwalkers who enjoy the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Inscription:
"To my glorious comrades of the A.I.F
by the late W. Shirley
No 5756 Pte. 13th Battalion
Died 27th August 1928"
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.
Twelve-ton, red granite Sphinx of Ramesses II, (19th Dynasty, circa 1293-1185 BCE). It was excavated from the sacred enclosure of the temple of the god Ptah at Memphis, Egypt. The sphinx, a lion with a human head, represents the power of the Egyptian king, both to protect his people and to conquer the enemies of Egypt. This statue was buried up to its shoulders; only the exposed head was attacked by windblown sand, which eroded the facial features and the royal false beard. The inscriptions on the chest and around the base give the five names of Ramesses II. His son and successor, Merenptah, added his own cartouches to the shoulders after his father's death. This sphinx, the third largest known in the world was quarried at Aswan and transported by river to the Ptah Temple at Memphis, 600 miles away.
A photograph from the archive. A beautiful Sphinx ligustri catepillar, perhaps more known as Privet Hawk Moth catepillar, as found in our summer garden. The Privet Hawk Moth (in Swedish "Ligustersvärmare") are the biggest night butterfly found in Sweden, as an adult it has 12 centimeters wingspan.
At the National World War I Museum and Memorial.
According to the website: "Two Assyrian Sphinxes guard the south entrance of the Liberty Memorial. 'Memory' faces east toward the battlefields of France, shielding its eyes from the horrors of war. 'Future' faces west, shielding its eyes from an unknown future."
Note new stone work covering up erosion on Sphinx. Extensive erosion on Sphinx could be from water and may mean it dates well before the 4th Dynasty. See books by Dr. Robert Schoch.
Sculptures by Paul Manship, who is best known for his Prometheus at Rockefeller Center. Commissioned by Samuel Untermyer in 1917 for his walled garden, now Untermyer Park.
Guardian of the pyramids. Didnt do a very good job since most of the contents in the pyramids got stolen..lol. Oh, accept King Tutankhamun's.