Sphinxes with a Human Head and with a Ram Head at Point Y. Karnak (Thebes)
Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)
publisher Goupil et Cie
1851–52
- Medium
- salted paper print from calotype negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.8 x 31.1 cm (9 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.); Paper: 38 x 50 cm (14 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Betty and Max Ratner in honor of Arielle Kozloff
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The monumental sphinx at Giza, which has the head of a man and the body of a lion, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient Egypt. The country contains other, humbler versions of this mythical creature. The one here with the head of a ram is only nine feet long and held a statue of a human between its paws.
