Beard.
Posted on 07/09/2013 4:23:44 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome
Part of an ancient Egyptian king's unique sphinx was unveiled at a dig in northern Israel on Tuesday, with researchers struggling to understand just how the unexpected find ended up there.
The broken granite sphinx statue -- including the paws and some of the mythical creature's forearms -- displayed at Tel Hazor archaeological site in Israel's Galilee, is the first such find in the region.
Its discovery also marks the first time ever that researchers have found a statue dedicated to Egyptian ruler Mycerinus who ruled circa 2,500 BC and was builder of one of the three Giza pyramids, an expert said.
"This is the only monumental Egyptian statue ever found in the Levant - today's Israel, Lebanon, Syria," Amnon Ben-Tor, an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University in charge of the Tel Hazor dig, told AFP.
"It is also the only sphinx of this particular king known, not even in Egypt was a sphinx of that particular king found."
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Gotta condo made-a ston-a.
Beard.
So true.
Definitely not a trophy wife.
He bears a resemblance to Ralph Richardson.
maybe he was a Hebrew???, or even just the son of a woman who was Hebrew??
hehe
2500 BC was long before Abraham, much less the sons of Jacob.
And Flotsam is right. She’s kinda Jessica Biehl hot.
Cool. But, I’ve always been partial to stray cats.
"My guess is some Roman officer bought it in Egypt then was transferred to Palestine, then got tired of lugging it around and just left it."
To Ben-Tor, however, the true coveted find would be archives buried somewhere on Tel Hazor that could serve as an inventory to the ancient city's content.What are these "archives"? Are they government accounting ledgers? Or is he talking about libraries? Or what?"I know there are two archives," he said. "We already have 18 documents from two periods, the 17th and 14th century BC. If I found those archives, people would come running here."
It sounds like the archives from the 17th and 14th centuries BC are known about but are not yet found.
Sounds like vaults/libraries containing records. If they were to find those, it could expedite the discovery of other items possibly still on-site.
Classic I had to watch it. Steve Martin was a lunatic.
The queen was either his mother or sister...common in Egypt then.
“My guess is some Roman officer bought it in Egypt then was transferred to Palestine, then got tired of lugging it around and just left it.”
Or maybe
The looters who a Roman Officer bought it from, followed the officer to where the Sphinx was found, mugged him during the night, took the rest of his money, but forget to bring their camels to carry the Sphinx back so they could sell it again.
Yuck.
I like the third alternative, that the sphinx was moved to Canaan later, during the period Egypt dominated the region.
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