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Sphinxes with a Human Head and with a Ram Head at Point Y. Karnak (Thebes)
Félix Teynard1851-52
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The monumental sphinx at Giza, which has the head of a man and the body of a lion, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient Egypt. The country contains other, humbler versions of this mythical creature. The one here with the head of a ram is only nine feet long and held a statue of a human between its paws.
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- Title: Sphinxes with a Human Head and with a Ram Head at Point Y. Karnak (Thebes)
- Creator: Félix Teynard (French, 1817-1892), Goupil et Cie
- Date Created: 1851-52
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 23.8 x 31.1 cm (9 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.); Paper: 38 x 50 cm (14 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
- Provenance: Marquis du Bourg de Bozas Chaix d'est-Ange, Château de Prye, (Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, Inc., New York, NY), Betty and Max Ratner, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.331
- Medium: salted paper print from calotype negative
- Series: Égypte et Nubie, sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire, pl. 68
- Department: Photography
- Culture: France; France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Betty and Max Ratner in honor of Arielle Kozloff
- Collection: PH - French 19th Century
- Accession Number: 1992.331
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