How these financial sphinxes manage surpasses the understanding of every one; and by what royal road they arrive at the power of making two do the work of four is hidden from the ordinary believers in Cocker.
Many other avenues of Sphinxes and lion-headed Kings may be observed in various parts of Upper Egypt.
An avenue of Sphinxes more than a mile in length connected the quarters of Luxoor and Carnak in Egyptian Thebes.
Two colossal sphinxes guard the gateway of the principal edifice, and their presence proves with certainty how predominant was Egyptian influence even at this considerable distance from the banks of the Nile.
The Egyptian sphinxes were figures having a human head and the body of a lion, symbolizing intelligence and power.
He went through the parks, which were haunted with sphinxes and obelisks and thick with the sultry heat of datura-scent.
Two sphinxes beside the narrow door lay like mysterious stone sentinels.
But the pillars, the obelisks, the sphinxes seemed to totter, to slant, to burst with old age.
In most of the designs for these various articles of furniture there is a similarity of treatment of the head, legs, and feet of lions, leopards, and sphinxes to that which we have noticed in the Assyrian patterns.
The conquerors had been much impressed by the long avenues of sphinxes at the entrance of the Memphite temples, and in imitation of the idea Esarhaddon had sphinxes, lions, and bulls at the entrances of his buildings.
The Avenue of Sphinxes between Karnak and Luxor; temple of Mentu at Karnak; great temple of Luxor; the famous colossi of the Nile; tomb of Amenhotep the architect and administrator, etc.
He passed on foot along the avenue of sphinxes and, greeted by the holy men, burned incense before the statues of Seti which occupied both sides of the main entrance.
Leaving the temple of Amon the young couple and their splendid retinue passed through the avenue of sphinxes to the pharaoh's palace.
From the public gate to the temple was an avenue of sphinxes with human heads and lion bodies.
One prince built a hypostyle hall, or a court surrounded by a colonnade; another added to the long rows of human or ram-headed sphinxes which lined the approaches; a third added a pylon, and a fourth a laboriously chiselled obelisk.
The two fine sphinxes in rose granite which form the chief ornaments of the principal court of the Boulak museum, were found in one of the inner halls of the temple at Karnak.
At the point where the man-headed sphinxes of Horus succeed to those sphinxes without inscriptions the date of which Mariette found it impossible to determine, the axis of the avenue inclines gently to the left.
Brune to place sphinxes upon the steps between the courts; he thought that some small heaps of débris at the ends of the steps indicated their situation; but M.
These avenues of sphinxes are always outside the actual walls of the temple, from which it has been inferred that they were merely ornamental, and without religious signification.
The dromos which led from Luxor to Karnak was about 2,200 yards long; there must, therefore, have been five hundred sphinxes on each side of it.
We find, however, thatsphinxes were sometimes placed in the interior of a temple.
The really ancient part of the structure begins with the rows of sphinxes which border the road behind the propylon.
On the broad flight of steps which led between two rows of sphinxes down to the landing-place of the royal boats, was a very different kind of assembly.
The sculptured group of Rameses the Great seated between divinities is one of a pair that adorned the entrance; its companion and the sphinxes that guarded the pylon are at Ismailia.
If you are of his acquaintance ask him of his talk with her in the avenue of the Sphinxes outside the great temple at Thebes and of what it cost him in gold and tears.
The arms of it ended in ivory sphinxes and on its back of black wood in an oval was inlaid the name of the great Rameses, to whom indeed it had once belonged.
She now perceived close to her, at hardly a hundred paces from where she stood, the line of sphinxes by the side of which lay the tombs of Apis near which she was to await Publius.
Only a few of the sphinxesare here now, and of those every one has been more or less mutilated.
As you approach the temple you enter an avenue of ramheaded sphinxes (huge fellows carved in stone), on opposite sides of the avenue.
A hundred and fiftysphinxes were discovered, besides the pedestals of many others.
Depending partly on whether the so-called Hyksos sphinxes belong to the period of the Hyksos kings or to an earlier period (cf.
Illustration: Avenue of Sphinxes from the Temple of Karnak to the Nile] At the temple the people remained outside the walls while the bride and groom, the pharaoh and dignitaries, entered the hall of columns.
From a raised platform commences an avenue of Crio-sphinxes leading to the front propyla, before which stood two granite statues of a Pharaoh.
We have said that this avenue of sphinxes led to the temple of Luxor.
Gilding, too, appears to have been extensively used in decoration, and some of the great sphinxes may have been overlaid with gold, like the cherubim in Solomon's temple.
It was faced on each side with ram-headed sphinxes only a few feet apart.
You saw what I did there; those ram-headed sphinxes nearly bankrupted me.
The animals which form many of the dromoi at Karnak are called crio-sphinxes (Fig.
In front of the sphinxes which stand before the great pylon at Karnak there are two small obelisks of sandstone.
On the other hand, the two little bronze sphinxes which stand upon the chimney-piece in the same room are in excellent condition.
Thus they placed sphinxes before the gates of their temples, meaning by that to say that their theology contained all the secrets of wisdom under an enigmatic form.
The kings who decorated the temple at Tanis with the fine sphinxes and groups of fishermen which I found among its ruins, must also have transported the vigorous fragments which we have before our eyes to the other side of Egypt.
And for what purpose was this sphinx of sphinxes called into being, as much greater than all other sphinxes as the pyramids are greater than all other temples or tombs?
The sphinxesseem for the most part to have been set up in the avenues leading to the temples.
At the top were placed sphinxes couchant, a circumstance which we ascertained from discovering accidentally two eyes and a mutilated foot, at the extremity of one of the upper stones.
During his reign in Ethiopia, Moses erected the Sphinxes and other monuments, and left inscriptions and bas-reliefs as tokens of his presence in that country.
In Her Majesty's collection there are some specimens from Burmah--creatures resembling sphinxes or deformed cherubim, executed in feathers, applied on silk and outlined in gold.
Golden couches supported by Sphinxes were placed along the sides of the tent, furnished with soft purple woollen mattresses, and coverings gaily and exquisitely embroidered.
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