Sphinx stairway and small temple plan — Henry Salt 1817

Plan of the excavated Sphinx forecourt and Roman steps — Open full-size image.

A plan of the excavations at the front of the Great Sphinx carried out in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Caviglia. The legs of the Sphinx and the small temple between them are shown on the right while the monumental Roman staircase that once descended to the chapel is shown on the left.

Source image: Internet Archive.

Digitisation used: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Appendix to Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 (1842), digital image 0178.

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