The Great Sphinx in the Giza plateau is the biggest statue in the world.
It amused generations of people through millenia.
Many persons who had possibility to see it, tried to make some kind of representations - drawings, sketches, photographs.
Here, I will try to collect some of them.
Possible sketches of the Sphinx from I Dynasty of Old Kingdom.
Several early dynastic labels from Abydos show a large lion half-buried, with only paws and a large head visible! In one particular image the head is truly huge (center), yet features are somewhat indistinct. See Source
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King Aha-Menes label |
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King Narmer label Right corner |
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King Djet label |
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Palette of Zer Redrawn Portion |
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1572 year:
Hogenberg & Broun painted graphic "Carius, quae olim Babylon" which exists in some slightly different variants, but in all of them, the Sphinx is with female face and body.
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1579 year:
By Helferich the statue was depicted as female. |
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1615 year:
By George Sandys
the statue was depicted as female.
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1653 year:
Francois de La Boullaye-Le Gouz in his book
"Les Voyages et Observations"
exposed the Sphinx as female.
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1551 year:
Sebastian Serlio |
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1665 year:
Balthasar de Monconys in his book
"Journal des Voyages"
exposed the Sphinx as female.
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1698 year:
Cornelius de Bruin in his book
"Door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia"
exposed the Sphinx as female.
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1755 year:
By Frederic Louis Norden
the statue was female.
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