Hycsos Sphinx by Boston Public Library

Statues of Amenemhat III

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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000037

Page Title: Hycsos Sphinx[es]

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 36)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page containing a photograph of Egyptian sphinx statues, annotated with information about the statues. The page also includes three drawings of cartouches and information about the Hyksos dynasty.

Subjects:

Egyptian (ancient)

statue

Sphinxes

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations:

Mariette 1863.

Considered by him "comme des produits de l'art des Pasteurs." [‘to be the works of the art of the Shepherds, i.e., the Hyksos’]

"These differ from other Egyptian monuments in a very marked way as one sees by comparing them with the Sphinx[es] of Tutmes III and Ramses II. The face is round, the eyes are small, the nose flattened, the cheek bones projecting, the lower lip sliphtly advanced, the ears are those of a bull while the mane of a lion encircles the visage." [« Ils se distinguent en effet des autres maonuments par des caractères bien tranchés, comme on le reconnaîtra sans peine, si l'on compare leur tête à celle des sphinx de Thoutmôsis III et de Ramsès II. La face est ronde, les yeux sont petits, les narines écrasées, les pommettes saillantes: la lèvre inférieure avance légèrement ; les oreilles sont celles du taureau, et une crinière de lion encadre le visage. »][1] On one of them one can descipher the name of the Shepherd King Apopi [Apepa]. Later Meneptah erased the name and substituted his cartouches. Still later Pasebxanu XXI dynasty put his name on the breast [place of honor] erasing that of the monarch for whom it was graven. This gives ground for a German theory that it antedates "les Pasteurs" [Shepherds] and belongs to XII. Dynasty.

[Left of the photo:]

XVI.

Dynasty

Hyksos.

Apepa.

XIX

Dynasty B.C. 1400

Thebes

Meneptah[,]

pharoah

of

Exodus.

XXI Dynasty

Tanis

Pasebxanu I.

B.C. 1100.

Language: English and French, photograph titled in French

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1:

Photographer: Sébah, J. Pascal

Title: 215 Sphinx Hycsos (Musée Ghizeh)

Caption: Hycsos Sphinx[es.] Excavations Tanis. Black Granite.

Date: ca. 1888-1890

Flickr data on 2011-08-03:

Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m

License: CC BY 2.0

User: Boston Public Library BPL

apophis egyptian antiquities in the ismail pasha palace egyptian antiquities in the isma 39 il pasha palace hyksos sphinxes of amenemhat iii photographs of egypt by jean pascal sebah sculptures usurped by psusennes i statues of amenemhat iii in the cairo egyptian museum statues usurped by merenptah tupper scrapbooks volume 26 lower egypt

1890

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