From Bab el-Nasr to Matariya: A Tale of Two Wandering Sphinxes

In Autumn 2018, the decision was taken to remove two quartzite sphinxes from a modern reconstruction of a postern next to Bab el-Nasr, Cairo. The two statues were thus moved to the open-air museum of Matariya, where they were most probably standing in the first place, on the site of the ancient Heli...

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Authors: Connor, Simon (Author) ; Al-Ella, Khaled Abou (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2020
In: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Year: 2020, Volume: 147, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-152
Further subjects:B quartzite
B New Kingdom
B Reuse
B Old Cairo
B Late Period
B Alexandria
B Old Kingdom
B Heliopolis Egypt
B mutilation
B Middle Kingdom
B Sphinx statues
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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