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Karnak Ram Sphinxes EG075074jhp Karnak Temple Egypt Entrance Exit Avenues Crio-sphinx Rams Visitors Tourists is located near Luxor City centre on the East Bank of the River Nile and it the largest religious complex on the Nile. In this photo are the two rows of ram-headed sphinxes around the back of the nearest row is the exit route for visitors, known as crio-sphinxes, as they take the form of ram with a lion's body straddling a small form of the pharaoh here, Ramses 11 in the form of Osiris, in the avenue from the old harbour entry to the temple with the first pylon in the background. The sphinxes were probably originally constructed by Amenhotep 11 or Horemheb but their identity replaced by Ramses 11 and even later again changed by Pinedjem 1, an evolution possibly spanning some 300 years. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Karnak, Temple, East Bank, River Nile, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, landscape, entrance, exit, visitors, tourists, first, pylon, Amenhotep, Amenophis, Horemheb, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, Pinedjem, Pinudjem, crio-sphinxes, ram, head, lion, body, avenue, row, stele, sandstone, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, oleander, flowers, pink, harbour, quay, excavations
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Karnak Temple
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Karnak Ram Sphinxes EG075074jhp
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Karnak Temple Egypt Entrance Exit Avenues Crio-sphinx Rams Visitors Tourists

is located near Luxor City centre on the East Bank of the River Nile and it the largest religious complex on the Nile. In this photo are the two rows of ram-headed sphinxes around the back of the nearest row is the exit route for visitors, known as crio-sphinxes, as they take the form of ram with a lion's body straddling a small form of the pharaoh here, Ramses 11 in the form of Osiris, in the avenue from the old harbour entry to the temple with the first pylon in the background. The sphinxes were probably originally constructed by Amenhotep 11 or Horemheb but their identity replaced by Ramses 11 and even later again changed by Pinedjem 1, an evolution possibly spanning some 300 years.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Karnak, Temple, East Bank, River Nile, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, landscape, entrance, exit, visitors, tourists, first, pylon, Amenhotep, Amenophis, Horemheb, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, Pinedjem, Pinudjem, crio-sphinxes, ram, head, lion, body, avenue, row, stele, sandstone, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, oleander, flowers, pink, harbour, quay, excavations