Sphinx: History of a Monument

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 122 pages, illustrations, map, plan; 22 cm. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Sphinx. Sphinxes; The hybrid nature of the sphinx; The word sphinx.; The Modern History of the Sphinx. From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century; Era of excavations; Great excavations of the twentieth century.; Description and History of the Sphinx.; The Old Kingdom: the Sphinx as Part of the Chephren Funerary Complex.; Transformations of the New Kingdom. Memphis in the new kingdom; Royal undertakings; Personal devotion; The invention of a god: the role and cult of Harmakhis; Harmakhis and the other gods of Giza.; The New Focus of the First Millennium. The Memphite context; The trace of sovereigns; The stela of the daughter of Cheops; The chapel of Harbes and the priesthoods of Harmakhis; Harmakhis and his temenos during the last dynasties.; Greco-Roman Period.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.