old-timey pictures of the sphinx which are terrible

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Norden%2C_1755_%282%29.png?1641502556442

this is from 1737 yet still some of the later drawings and engravings were obviously mimicking other terrible drawings and adding the nose. Perhaps some of these people were winging it or maybe some of them saw it had no nose and decided to take artistic license because maybe they thought people might not be as captivated at the idea of a great nose-less relic.

https://www.lindisfarneprints.com/ekmps/shops/lindisfarne/images/egypt-colossal-sphynx-head-pyramids-of-memphis-antique-print-1804-10045-p.jpg

colossal cybersphynx's head

If any of these have been found yet featuing the Sphinx holding an incredibly shit drawing of a guitar then ...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Me8AAOSwytBc6Bp0/s-l400.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yXIuQ75.png

https://img.posterlounge.co.uk/images/big/1874048.jpg

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's dramatic take, he was a German proto-hippy and minor symbolist painter/nudist/commune leader type who I'd never heard of before tbh.

https://www.john-howe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sphinx1-port.jpg

A and I haven't been posted yet. from https://www.john-howe.com/blog/2010/07/15/the-sphinx-with-a-thousand-faces/

(that's a really big pic, so open image in new tab or whatever)

Oh wait, I missed One Eye Open's post, sorry.

https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Anticvarium/07/556107/H18717-L64895752.jpg
https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Anticvarium/07/556107/H18717-L64895754.jpg

Trying to get manageable images for the 2 I mentioned. Not sure if the second one will show up.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Rendering_of_the_head_of_the_Sphinx_from_Giza%2C_Egypt_-_Thevet_Andr%C3%A9_-_1556.jpg/483px-Rendering_of_the_head_of_the_Sphinx_from_Giza%2C_Egypt_-_Thevet_Andr%C3%A9_-_1556.jpg

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000278x/f1.highres

nice pair

https://keltaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210611_140848-scaled.jpg

norman mailer a welcome change from the massed george washingtons

Lol. I met his set once, but that is for another thread.

i swear to god that on the walk home today i passed a kid with her mom making a set of snow pyramids flanking a snow sphinx
i shoulda took a picture

this isn't terrible it's just old (18th or thutmosid dynasty aka 1550-1292 BC) (king tut was a thutmosid but there were like 16 others inc pharaoh ay who was an alien lmao)

https://i.imgur.com/6kzYeWw.png

source: https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/documents/zivie-coche_sphinx.pdf

stone postcard to give ppl fomo

That's how she appears at the Luxor in Las Vegas if I recall correctly

I can appreciate ancient linear carvings of pyramids that are done wrong to fit on the tablet, but all those European interlopers can get fucked!

Perhaps those represent pyramids that have not yet been rediscovered...?

"the hills* were higher** (when we were young)"!
—bryan ferry

*pyramids
**pointier

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/b9/fc/22b9fc8e3bc1639772fa8d9d11dd52ac.jpg

https://t1.thpservices.com/previewimage/gallil/eed74b289aa112e27c9966a34784c684/dae-88016145.jpg

https://c8.alamy.com/compes/2b75drh/esfinge-andro-esfinges-androsfinge-egipto-egipto-giza-gran-esfinge-en-gizeh-dibujo-de-linea-vintage-o-ilustracion-de-grabado-2b75drh.jpg

https://media.istockphoto.com/illustrations/great-sphinx-in-the-old-book-encyclopedic-dictionary-by-a-granat-vol-illustration-id1267506720

Great Sphinx in the old book Encyclopedic dictionary by A. Granat, vol. 3, S. Petersburg, 1896

watch ad from 1897

https://www.atticpaper.com/prodimages/081111small/elgin.jpg

xp

just saying from that vantage point there is a distant pyramid on the horizon, not a miniature one right behind it!

the facial expression on the sphinx from the Russian encyclopedia (ruminative, somewhat bitter but also resigned)is reminding me of a specific image, but I can't place it

looks a bit like a young MES

"buddy, they wont even let me fuck it"

Conceptio artis, 1894 #akseligallenkallela #symbolism pic.twitter.com/Hijo4E3F6X

— Akseli Gallen-Kallela (@AkseliGallenArt) January 26, 2022

picture is not terrible tho

cant see the sphinx when the air is thick with sand tapping_head_wisely.gif