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Early Image of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

An original magic lantern slide c1890 of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) at Giza – the second largest pyramid.

Standard British magic Lantern slide by an unknown maker. Some age as can be seen but excuse it for the rarity of the image.

A striking image of Kharfe with the Sphinx in the foreground. Compare the image with a modern image taken from pretty much the same position. The Pyramid is in a remarkably similar state of condition retaining the same amount of polished coping stone near to top – Kharfe the only pyramid to retain any – they were raided to build later structures.

However, the Sphinx is quite different and the modern image by comparison shows just how much reconstruction has been carried out in the intervening 130 years.

Khafre ruled Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty between 2558 and 2553 years BC … unfortunately the tombs were robbed of anything valuable likely early on.

Khafre as it is and the Sphinx as it was.

$80.00

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Original Copper Engraving – Egyptian Incunculae – Thomas Shaw – 1736

One of the earliest copper engraving of Egyptian motifs from the rare first edition of Thomas Shaw’s “Travels or Observations Relating to Several parts of Barbary and the Levant” published at the Theatre, Oxford.

The figure in the top left H is Orus [the Earth] turgid with the variety of things he is to produce, K is Anubis [God of the Dead], M Apis, N Cat, O the Cynocephalus (Dog headed man), P Hawk, Q Frog, S Beetle, T the Phallus Oculatus, U the Niloscope, X Pyramid and Y Plectrum.

Very early engraving of Egyptian incunculae

$140.00

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Early Image of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

Original Copper Engraving – Egyptian Incunculae – Thomas Shaw – 1736

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