Posted on 12/30/2013 4:16:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A black granite head of an unidentified New Kingdom king's statue has been uncovered in Luxor
The Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission unearthed on Thursday a large granite head of a statue of an unidentified New Kingdom king during routine excavation at King Thutmose III’s funerary temple on Luxor’s west bank.
Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Section at the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), explained that the head is 29.6cm high, 24.3cm wide and 26.9cm deep. The head depicts a round face of a royal figure, not identified yet, wearing a wig, with traces of a broken nose, and two long ears that each reach 8cm. The eyes, he continued, have traces of kohl, with thick eyebrows.
Abdel-Maqsoud said that the head was found buried in sand in a pit on the northern side of the second court of the temple. Studies are underway in an attempt to determine which New Kingdom king it belongs to.
The temple of Thutmose III is a vey small temple located beside the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Al Deir Al-Bahari. It was first discovered in February 1962 during routine restoration work carried out by a Polish excavation mission of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology led by archaeologist Kazimierz Michalowski.
The temple is poorly preserved and was dedicated to god Amun-Re. Although Thutmose III’s actual funerary temple Henkhet-Ankh is located a short distance away, such a temple had played some role within the king’s funerary cult.
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Post #5 shows a statue of Obama.
A victim of sharia law justice?
Damn! is that Obama in the background of the second pic?
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“How the Great Sphinx of Giza may have started out with the face of a lion”
The Sphinx was a lion. The head was much later replaced with a pharaoh’s head. The beard of the Sphinx is in the British Museum on London. Only statues of dead pharaohs had beards, btw.
And another btw, I believe the pyramids at Giza predate Noah’s flood. I also believe that the Sphinx may be of similar pre-flood origin.
The Great Pyramid at Giza was built about 2500 BC; the mud-brick pyramids ten or so miles south are hundreds of years older. Had they been submerged for six months, they’d have dissolved into a pile of dirt.
Some Pharaohs were Black, that is a fact, a few were white as well, but most were brown, a Hamic People as are the Egyptians. The Egyptians had no concept of race—what was important to them was what gods you bowed too.
Actually the Great Sphinx of Giza started as Anubis in the form of a jackel. See: “The Great Sphinx Mystery” by Robert Temple.
Theory. I have been there. Looks like a lion to me. And lions were symbolic in all of ancient Egypt.
Not a lion’s body. It may look like a lion to you, but anatomically it does not. It fits perfectly with the body of a jackal. Go look at a canine’s body shape and compare that to a lion’s - there are vast differences: most outstanding absent are the lack of a deep, high chest and sloping back of a lion at rest.
Both lion and jackal statues are always portrayed the same way for each. There are no lions carved with a body similar to the Sphinx.
Jackals were held more highly than lions during the First Kingdom for their identification with Anubis Guardian and Shepard of the Dead.
The current form of the Sphinx has been heavily reconstructed since Roman times on the theory it was supposed to be a lion, as you say.
But a lion makes no sense to be watching over that site. Anubis does. Most of the time the Sphinx was covered by sand and only recently visible in its entirety.
“The Great Sphinx Mystery” by Robert Temple has a lot of photos of the Sphinx (old and recent) from many angles. Temple may know more than Zwais about the First Kingdom - without Zwais’ Egyptian-centric islamic political agenda.
There are also First Kingdom references to the Sphinx as being Anubis The Jackal.
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