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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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The celebrated sphinx in front of the pyramids, in its originalstate, presented the appearance of an enormous couchant andro-sphinx with gigantic paws, between which was a miniature temple 152 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. with a platform, and flights of steps for approaching it, with othersleading down from the plain above, the head was formerly adornedwith the pschent. The whole is cut out of the solid rock, with the
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exception of the forelegs. The rock was cut into this form aboutthe reign of Thotmes IV. On a granite tablet in the temple is theoval of this king. An avenue of Sphinxes formed a usual approachto an Egyptian temple. MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 153 The Phoenix is represented under the form of a bird, with wingspartly raised, and seated upon its open claws, having at the backof its head a small tnft of feathers, and in front it raises two humanarms, as if in an attitude of prayer. It is supposed to be a type of

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