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By Josef Wegner, Jennifer Houser Wegner
from the college of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Written to have a good time the centennial of the Sphinx's arrival in Philadelphia, The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia tells the interesting tale of the titanic sphinx that may be a spotlight of the Penn Museum's Egyptian galleries and an iconic item for the Museum as an entire. The narrative covers the unique excavations and archaeological historical past of the Sphinx, the way it got here to Philadelphia, and the unforeseen ways that the Sphinx's tale intersects with the historical past of Philadelphia, the college of Pennsylvania, and the Museum ahead of global warfare I.
The publication positive factors considerable illustrations—photographs, letters, newspaper tales, postcards, maps, and drawings—drawn mostly from the broad fabrics within the Museum documents. pictures of comparable artifacts within the Penn Museum's Egyptian assortment and different items from the Egyptian, close to East, and Mediterranean Sections (many no longer on view and a few by no means sooner than published), in addition to items in museums within the usa, Europe, and Egypt, position the tale of the Penn Museum Sphinx in a much wider context. The writing type is casual and textual content is woven round the portraits that shape the spine of the narrative. The e-book is designed to be of curiosity to a large viewers of grownup readers yet obtainable and fascinating to more youthful readers in addition.
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Lawrence (1888–1935) worked with Petrie in 1912, the year of the Sphinx’s discovery. 10b. In 1913 the Alabaster Sphinx was turned upright and levered onto stone blocks where it remained through the 1920s. Later it was moved slightly and a concrete base added. It became an anchor for the Open Air Museum in Mit Rahina where it remains today. The Alabaster Sphinx remains something of a mystery since there are no inscriptions visible on the eroded base to provide the identity of the pharaoh (or pharaohs) whose buildings at Memphis it once watched over.
We trust that you will be satisfied with our action in the matter, and we wait to hear from you upon arrival of the Sphinx, and hope it will be landed safely. The Bill of Lading has been made out to the order of the University, so that you can arrange yourselves as to Clearance etc. by your own agent. A. W. CONGDON & CO. 6. 7. 9. 8. 8. A 1912 postcard of the Suez Canal. 9. Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal in a postcard from ca. 1910. Note freighters almost identical to the Schildturm passing through the canal.
However, it apparently did occur to gordon at some point that there might just be a possibility that the Egyptian Antiquities Service would not wish to retain the Alabaster Sphinx. If the granite sphinx could come to Philadelphia, what about the Alabaster Sphinx? What a wonderful addition to the growing collection of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania to have two of the largest sphinxes in existence! That seems to have been the impetus for several polite inquiries from gordon regarding the status of the Alabaster Sphinx.