TWO MONUMENTAL EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SPHINXES OF KING NECTANEBO, FROM THE SERAPEION AT MEMPHIS

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TWO MONUMENTAL EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SPHINXES OF KING NECTANEBO, FROM THE SERAPEION AT MEMPHIS

DYNASTY XXX, REIGN OF KING NECTANEBO (360-343 B.C.)

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TWO MONUMENTAL EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SPHINXES OF KING NECTANEBO, FROM THE SERAPEION AT MEMPHIS
DYNASTY XXX, REIGN OF KING NECTANEBO (360-343 B.C.)
The recumbent human-headed sphinxes each with bodies in the form of lions, forepaws outstretched in front, tail curled round the haunches, the heads representing Nectanebo, wearing tripartite wigs with central royal uraeus, both mounted
51¼ in. (1.30 m.) long av. (2)

來源

From the Serapeion, Memphis.
Acquired in the mid-19th Century by Lord Roberts for his residence, Elstree Hall; sold circa 1900 and sited in the town of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, from where they were acquired by the present owner.

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Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.

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PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 125 and 360.

These sphinxes come from the sacred route to the Serapeion at Memphis which was consecrated to the sacred Apis bulls. The entrance to it was lined with sphinxes. Six other sphinxes from the Serapeion are in the Louvre Museum, Paris. The sphinxes represent King Nectanebo who, according to legend, was the father of Alexander the Great. For a similar sphinx of Nectanebo from Vienna, Kunsthistorischen Museums, 76, cf. R. A. Fazzini and R. S. Bianchi, Exhibition catalogue, Cleopatra's Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, 1988, p. 228-229, no. 120.