Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . Bri-tish Museum. TheSphinx was alsoentirely excavated by M. Mariette. History of the Sphinx. It was pointed out by Lepsius in L843that the Sphinx must have been founded earlier than the 18thDynasty, notwithstanding the above mentioned inscription on oneof the tablets. The date there given is the first year of the reign ofThothmes III., which contains the account of the dream of thatmonarch while practising at a target and hunting near the the inscription at the end the Sphinx appe
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . Bri-tish Museum. TheSphinx was alsoentirely excavated by M. Mariette. History of the Sphinx. It was pointed out by Lepsius in L843that the Sphinx must have been founded earlier than the 18thDynasty, notwithstanding the above mentioned inscription on oneof the tablets. The date there given is the first year of the reign ofThothmes III., which contains the account of the dream of thatmonarch while practising at a target and hunting near the the inscription at the end the Sphinx appears to havebeen a representation of Khafra or Chcphren, whose cartouche occurs at the left end of the last but one of the consecutive lines of the inscription, the O alone having been ob-literated. In his dream Thothmes is asked by the Sphinx to clearaway the encroachments of sand. As the Sphinx lies nearly in aline with the Pyramid of that king, it was not unnaturally thoughtthat he was the founder of both monuments. This conjectureseemed to be confirmed by the discovery of the statue of Chcphren.
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