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• catalog abstract ""The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity." "Christiane Zivie-Coche, a Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."" "The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12630851.
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity." "Christiane Zivie-Coche, a Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."" "The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Sphinx -- Sphinxes -- Hybrid Nature of the Sphinx -- Word Sphinx -- 2. Modern History of the Sphinx -- From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century -- Era of Excavations -- Great Excavations of the Twentieth Century -- 3. Description and History of the Sphinx -- 4. Old Kingdom: The Sphinx as Part of the Chephren Funerary Complex -- 5. Transformations of the New Kingdom -- Memphis in the New Kingdom -- Royal Undertakings -- Personal Devotion -- Invention of a God: The Role and Cult of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and the Other Gods of Giza -- 6. New Focus of the First Millennium -- Memphite Context -- Trace of Sovereigns -- Stela of the Daughter of Cheops -- Chapel of Harbes and the Priesthoods of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and His Temenos during the Last Dynasties -- 7. Greco-Roman Period.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 122 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Sphinx.".
• catalog identifier "0801439620 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Sphinx.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
• catalog relation "Sphinx.".
• catalog subject "932 21".
• catalog subject "DT62.S7 Z58 2002".
• catalog subject "Great Sphinx (Egypt) History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Sphinx -- Sphinxes -- Hybrid Nature of the Sphinx -- Word Sphinx -- 2. Modern History of the Sphinx -- From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century -- Era of Excavations -- Great Excavations of the Twentieth Century -- 3. Description and History of the Sphinx -- 4. Old Kingdom: The Sphinx as Part of the Chephren Funerary Complex -- 5. Transformations of the New Kingdom -- Memphis in the New Kingdom -- Royal Undertakings -- Personal Devotion -- Invention of a God: The Role and Cult of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and the Other Gods of Giza -- 6. New Focus of the First Millennium -- Memphite Context -- Trace of Sovereigns -- Stela of the Daughter of Cheops -- Chapel of Harbes and the Priesthoods of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and His Temenos during the Last Dynasties -- 7. Greco-Roman Period.".
• catalog title "Sphinx : history of a monument / Christiane Zivie-Coche ; translated from the French by David Lorton.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".