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|February 25, 2012 | Found Images

Elihu Vedder, Questioner Of The Sphinx.

” The one-meter-wide nose on the face is missing. Examination of the Sphinx’s face shows that long rods or chisels were hammered into the nose, one down from the bridge and one beneath the nostril, then used to pry the nose off towards the south.

The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa’id al-Su’ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa’im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism. Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the ‘ talisman of the Nile ‘ on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended.

There is also a story that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon’s soldiers, that still lives on today. Other variants indict British troops, the Mamluks, and others. However, sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden, made in 1737 and published in 1755, illustrate the Sphinx already without a nose.

In addition to the lost nose, a ceremonial pharaonic beard is thought to have been attached, although this may have been added in later periods after the original construction. Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev has suggested that had the beard been an original part of the Sphinx, it would have damaged the chin of the statue upon falling.^[16] The lack of visible damage supports his theory that the beard was a later addition. “

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|February 24, 2012 | Found Images

Gavin Watson.

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|February 24, 2012 | Found Images

I love stuff like this.

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|February 24, 2012 | Found Images

Many of these still feel very familiar to me. Sometimes they were all we had, and we were happy to have them.

.. Is Messing Around In Graveyards Again

|February 24, 2012 | Stuffs

I was taking a nice walk in one of the cemeteries by the studio last night, where I saw this human jawbone with a couple of teeth in it. The molar has a filling, even.