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Karnak Ram Sphinxes EG075076jhp Karnak Temple Egypt Exit First Pylon Avenue Crio-sphinx Rams Lion Body 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 two rows of ram-headed sphinxes the back of the nearest one is the exit for visitors to the site, 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, upright, entrance, 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 EG075076jhp
Upload Date: 2005-04-20 09:26:03
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Karnak Temple Egypt Exit First Pylon Avenue Crio-sphinx Rams Lion

Body 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 two rows of ram-headed sphinxes the back of the nearest one is the exit for visitors to the site, 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, upright, entrance, 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