Photo FIESA 2006 - 12 - Sphinx and the Pyramid by Luis Lima - reporting, genre

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FIESA 2006 - 12 - Sphinx and the Pyramid

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Fri 13 Oct 2006 05:47

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Elena HL #1 Fri 13 Oct 2006 10:42

Great Egyptian motif! Good contrast! Congrats, dear friend!

Roberto Palladini #2 Fri 13 Oct 2006 12:02

Beautiful composition. Warm regards

silvia marmori #3 Fri 13 Oct 2006 17:00

again, a so good pov.. perfect definiton and light..
um bom fds!!!

Svetlana M #4 Fri 13 Oct 2006 18:48

Well seen, well presented.

Vigen Hakhverdyan #5 Fri 13 Oct 2006 19:56

what is with nose?

Luis Lima #8 Sat 14 Oct 2006 16:07

It's a real depiction, actually Vigen.

The one-meter-wide nose on the face is missing. A legend that the nose was broken off by a cannon ball fired by Napoleon's soldiers still survives, as do diverse variants indicting British troops, Mamluks, and others. However, sketches of the Sphinx by Frederick Lewis Norden made in 1737 and published in 1755 illustrate the Sphinx without a nose. The Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the vandalism to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 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. Al-Maqrizi describes the Sphinx as the "Nile talisman" on which the locals believed the cycle of inundation depended.

Best regards