Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . s used, the Sphinx wasgenerally male; but in the of female rulersthe ligure has a female head and the body of alioness. The most remarkable Sphinx is the Great Sphinxat (ii/eli (Oiza), .a colossal form hewn out of thenatural rock, and lying about a quarter of a milesouth-east of the (ireat Pyramid. It is sculpturedout of a spur of the rock itself, to which masonryhas been added in certain jilaces to comjdete theshape. an^, as the Greek inscrip-tions found at the same place call it— the Sunon the Horizon. These tablets fo
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . s used, the Sphinx wasgenerally male; but in the of female rulersthe ligure has a female head and the body of alioness. The most remarkable Sphinx is the Great Sphinxat (ii/eli (Oiza), .a colossal form hewn out of thenatural rock, and lying about a quarter of a milesouth-east of the (ireat Pyramid. It is sculpturedout of a spur of the rock itself, to which masonryhas been added in certain jilaces to comjdete theshape. an^, as the Greek inscrip-tions found at the same place call it— the Sunon the Horizon. These tablets formed three wallsof the chapel ; the fourth, in front, hail a door inthe centre and two couchant lions over it. A. Great Sphinx at Gizch. small lion was found on tlie ])avenipnt, and an altarbetween its fore ])aws, apparently for sacriticesolTered to it in the time of ttie Romans. Before thealtar wa-s a paved causeway or dromos, loadinj; to awalled staircase of thirty steps, repaired in the reisnof M. Aurelius ami L. Verus on the Kith May In the reigns of Severus and his sons, ,anotheriironios, in the same line as the first, anda diverj,ing staircase were constructed, while someadditions had V>een made to the parts between thetwo staircases in the reign of Nero. Votive inscrip-tions of the Koman period, some as late as the 3(1century, were discovered in the walls and construc-tions : and on the secoinl digit of the left claw of tlieSphinx an inscription in pentameter (!reek verses,by one Arrian, probably of the time of Severus, wasdiscovered. In addition to these walls of unburntbrick, galleries and shafts were found in the rearof the Sphinx extending northwards. The excava-t
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