Sphinx temple between forelegs — Henry Salt 1817

Salt’s drawing of the chapel between the Sphinx’s forelegs — Open full-size image.

The chapel found between the front legs of the Great Sphinx containing the "dream stele" of Thutmose IV and two stele of Rameses the Great. The illustration is by Henry Salt and dates to 1817 after excavation by Giovanni Battista Caviglia.

Source image: Internet Archive.

Digitisation used: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Appendix to Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 (1842), digital image 0179.

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