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Sphinx
Christiane Zivie-Coche
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Description for Sphinx
Paperback. Translator(s): Lorton, David. Num Pages: 144 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt—what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old."—from the IntroductionThe Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489549
SKU
V9780801489549
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About Christiane Zivie-Coche
Christiane Zivie-Coche is Professor at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She is coauthor with Françoise Dunand of Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE (also from Cornell) and the author or editor of more than a half dozen books in French. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Reviews for Sphinx
Christiane Zivie-Coche's Sphinx: History of a Monument reflects her particular concern with the later history of the Giza sphinx and with the Giza plateau as a whole. This... translation... brings to an anglophone readership a wealth of detail about the appropriation of the sphinx in the New Kingdom and the Late Period, as a monument no longer exclusively tied to ... Read more