https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Johanne_Baptista_Homann%2C_1724.png
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Balthasar_de_Monconys%2C_1665.png
https://w600.comps.canstockphoto.com/pyramids-of-giza-and-the-great-sphinx-eps-vector_csp33767581.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
i meanhttps://i.imgur.com/iUELouE.png
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1478857556546183173/F-voHqp3?format=jpg&name=small
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
Lol, great thread idea.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
sphinx is the greek for "strangler" (or i guess maybe "strangless") bcz that's what she did if you couldn't answer her annoying riddle abt legs
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
no.3 reminds me of this hanle y classic
PS Look how weird Kant lookedhttps://c8.alamy.com/comp/HRP6G1/immanuel-kant-german-philosopher-HRP6G1.jpg― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 01:00 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HRP6G1/immanuel-kant-german-philosopher-HRP6G1.jpg
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 01:00 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
(sadly i had to find a less funny render of the kant pic bcz link-rot)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:43 (two years ago) link
Played by Simon Pegg
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
so many of these look like george washington’s head, powdered wig & alllike yo have u even seen the sphinx
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
Many of those pictures get the pyramids all wrong too, good work lads.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2021/02/16/19/33/cat-6022127_1280.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
a couple of them seem to be depicting a sphinx and also a separate giant head
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
Relevant to my current DN interests
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
if they'd have commissioned Monet to paint the sphinx before the first b+w photos got out there, it at least would have give you a sense of location and the form and shape of it and position of it in relation to pyramids etc. These FAKE NEWS guys were taking the piss man!
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Oedipus_lost_het_raadsel_op_Titelpagina_voor_A._Kircher%2C_Oedipus_Aegyptiacus%2C_Rome_1652-1654%2C_RP-P-BI-1459.jpg/800px-Oedipus_lost_het_raadsel_op_Titelpagina_voor_A._Kircher%2C_Oedipus_Aegyptiacus%2C_Rome_1652-1654%2C_RP-P-BI-1459.jpg
"Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Ægyptiacus; the Sphinx, confronted by Kircher's learning, admits he has solved her riddle"
Narrator: he had not solved her riddle (Wikipedia: "In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses, and that hieroglyphs were occult symbols which "cannot be translated by words, but expressed only by marks, characters and figures.")
https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/8741299774_c91c4d54ae_o.jpg
AK (1602-80) was a pioneering egyptologist and the "last renaissance man" but (or perhaps that shd be so) he also just made a ton of stuff up
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
The 4th one, where the sphinx is Napoleon is my favourite!
― jel--, Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
Pyramids seemed a lot more pointy back in those days...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
Pretty notorious that Napoleon's army used the Sphinx for artillery practice and shot off its nose.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
notorious and also quite wrong: the second pic is from 1737 and the nose is clearly already not there
prior to that arab historians speculated that it was a religious defacement by sufi moslems in the 1300s to stop locals worshipping this big lummox of an idol and a US archeologist has studied the actual tool marks and concludes that the loss may date back to the 3rd century AD
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
Not clear to me why chopping off its nose would prevent people from worshiping it, but both Islam and the Christian iconoclasts object to representing divinity in human form, so it's believable they would have done some defacement. If so, they did a very half-assed job of it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
i honestly always assumed erosion, just cause it’s a smallish pointy part of a large statue &i assumed in sandblasting desert sandstorms that the nose would be first to go
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
Good thread
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:35 (two years ago) link
https://sunilshinde.typepad.com/my_weblog/WindowsLiveWriter/sphinx%20-%20Luigi%20Mayer.jpg
― calzino, Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:58 (two years ago) link
https://pastnow.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/flight-for-egypt.jpg
― calzino, Thursday, 6 January 2022 08:02 (two years ago) link
George Cruikshank for the illustration above obv only had reference to other wrong depictions of what pyramids look like.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 January 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link
p. sure this story gained currency as Napoleon's soldiers had form for this. In Milan, they *did* use Jesus's face in Leonardo's Last Supper for target practice!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 6 January 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
VG: i have never been in a sandstorm so i don't know this for sure but i *believe* -- despite the image we have garnered from such documentaries as THE MUMMY (1999) of the dust-front as a mile-high wall of whirling doom -- that the scouring action almost all happens within a couple of feet of the ground (where gravity will keep most of the particles as wind in a desert is parallel to the ground)
i: hence sphinx-face not hugely eroded compared to sphinx-sides (see striation groove along same: the face is also fashioned of harder rock mind you) ii: in the wikipedia entry there's a neat pic (see below) of a VENTIFACT (like artifact but for wind) from the white desert of farafra a few hundred mikles to the southwest of giza, making the argument that the harder sphinx-head is inspired by or perhaps actually carved out of such a phenomenon iii: the white desert of farafra is full of huge chalky mushrooms where the base is much more worn than the bulbous top and some of the tops do look like monster's heads so
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Weisse_Wüste.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
Howard Vyse directed Perring in 1837 to drill a tunnel in the back of the Sphinx, just behind the head. The boring rods became stuck at a depth of 27 feet (8.2 m), Attempts to blast the rods free caused further damage.
old-timey archaeologists who were terrible
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
lol yes vyse was the worst, there's a bunch of ireperable damage in the great pyramid also thanks to his crazed boring
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z0bvTet.png
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:16 (two years ago) link
Obelix broke the Sphinx's nose as I recall
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpG8DJVW0AEYkXW.png
― fetter, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:18 (two years ago) link
ha, by Toutatis!
― fetter, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:19 (two years ago) link
us archeologist mentioned upthread OTM
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
https://lab.syncer.jp/Travel/Tochigi/TOBU-WORLD-SQUARE/egypt-09.jpg
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:25 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Cornelis_de_Bruijn%2C_1698.png
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:38 (two years ago) link
looks like a Far Side cartoon
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:39 (two years ago) link
that's the top one but bigger and backwards and yellow (nice to see all the little detailed ppl clearer tho)
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:55 (two years ago) link
Actually one is a copy of the other - the sky, pyramids and numbers of people are different. Clearly the same rendition tho.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 January 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link
Why did these weirdos think the pyramids were needles (and short)?
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
any room for contemporary pictures of the sphinx which are terrible and also incorporate incredibly shit drawings of guitars? #onethread
http://i.imgur.com/bfqwLFW.jpg
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52701ddae4b0764939e3b98a/1393105470918-BI2HGON9U9TDSCT59OG9/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kN9BAWCuTsEAsYPRAGLKn-dZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpw9IELqyvfoO1ftmpt3PRMAxBygYSXF-OUPVCErjuADt97eTh55TaOaDYmgAP_LmxM/sphinx_head4-2001.jpg
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link
which led me to this:
https://www.handshouse.org/carving-a-new-sphinx-nose/http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52701ddae4b0764939e3b98a/1393106241540-JWI8PC0G5JREQ202NDVK/Mark-Lehner%2CJonathan-Bechard%2C-Rick-Brown%2C-Laura-Brown.jpg
1867, not terrible
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Handbook_of_archaeology%2C_Egyptian_-_Greek_-_Etruscan_-_Roman_%281867%29_%2814758374226%29.jpg/800px-Handbook_of_archaeology%2C_Egyptian_-_Greek_-_Etruscan_-_Roman_%281867%29_%2814758374226%29.jpg
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I found this very web 1.0 page with several images.
https://freemaninstitute.com/sphinx.htm
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
lol
https://i.imgur.com/FLt4DYE.png
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
nailed it
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
Don Martin to thread!
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
harder to google than i would've presumed!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
i suggest the freeman institute may be in error (or fvcking with us) but based on its design and site architecture that can't possibly be the case
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2014_06/23/21/212410013/9c20dee5-03ac-4eeb-af59-13afe81e6273_570.Jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
"Any more riddles and I'll stuff you full of dynamite"
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.lindisfarneprints.com/ekmps/shops/lindisfarne/images/egypt-colossal-sphynx-head-pyramids-of-memphis-antique-print-1804-10045-p.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
colossal cybersphynx's head
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
If any of these have been found yet featuing the Sphinx holding an incredibly shit drawing of a guitar then ...
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Me8AAOSwytBc6Bp0/s-l400.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yXIuQ75.png
― mark s, Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 7 January 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
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/
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 7 January 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
(that's a really big pic, so open image in new tab or whatever)
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 7 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
Oh wait, I missed One Eye Open's post, sorry.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Anticvarium/07/556107/H18717-L64895752.jpghttps://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Anticvarium/07/556107/H18717-L64895754.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 7 January 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
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
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 7 January 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
nice pair
― calzino, Friday, 7 January 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
https://keltaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210611_140848-scaled.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 January 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link
norman mailer a welcome change from the massed george washingtons
― mark s, Friday, 7 January 2022 10:06 (two years ago) link
Lol. I met his set once, but that is for another thread.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link
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 sphinxi shoulda took a picture
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
stone postcard to give ppl fomo
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 7 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
That's how she appears at the Luxor in Las Vegas if I recall correctly
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 January 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Perhaps those represent pyramids that have not yet been rediscovered...?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link
"the hills* were higher** (when we were young)"! —bryan ferry
*pyramids**pointier
― mark s, Saturday, 8 January 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/b9/fc/22b9fc8e3bc1639772fa8d9d11dd52ac.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
https://t1.thpservices.com/previewimage/gallil/eed74b289aa112e27c9966a34784c684/dae-88016145.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
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
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
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
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
watch ad from 1897
https://www.atticpaper.com/prodimages/081111small/elgin.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
xp
just saying from that vantage point there is a distant pyramid on the horizon, not a miniature one right behind it!
― calzino, Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
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
― soref, Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
looks a bit like a young MES
― calzino, Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
"buddy, they wont even let me fuck it"
Conceptio artis, 1894 #akseligallenkallela #symbolism pic.twitter.com/Hijo4E3F6X— Akseli Gallen-Kallela (@AkseliGallenArt) January 26, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 29 January 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
picture is not terrible tho
cant see the sphinx when the air is thick with sand tapping_head_wisely.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link