Sphix stele of Rameses the Great Henry Salt 1817

Ramesses II stele recorded after a drawing by Henry Salt — Open full-size image.

A stele of Rameses the Great found in the small temple between the legs of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Caviglia in 1817. One of a pair, it is now in the Louvre Museum. This illustration is by Henry Salt published in Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 (Vol 3).

Historical illustration: F. Arundale, after a drawing by H. Salt, “Smaller Tablet between the Fore Legs of the Sphinx”, in Howard Vyse, Appendix to Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 (1842), plate facing p. 117. Digitised copy: Heidelberg University Library (Public Domain Mark).

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