Αρίστος έγραψε: 27 Μάιος 2024, 16:09
Παρε Σελιμ Χασαν ανθρωπε μου να μην μας κουραζεις.
Ο ανθρωπος που εσκαψε ολη τη Γκιζα και το ενα στα δυο αρχαια της μαζι με τη Σφιγγα αυτος το εχει βγαλει...
"Taking all things into consideration, it seems that we must give the credit of erecting this, the world’s most wonderful statue, to Khafre (Χεφρην), but always with this reservation: that there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre; so, sound as it may appear, we must treat the evidence as circumstantial, until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx."
Taking into consideration its surroundings
In addition to its causeway, the Pyramid, and the Sphinx, the entire complex includes both the Sphinx and Valley Temple, both of which share a similar design in terms of their inner courts. According to experts, the Sphinx Temple was crafted with stones removed from the Sphinx enclosure. But the stones for the valley temple were quarried from the plateau, and some weighed more than 100 tons. But then again, this circumstantial evidence is just a conglomeration of assumptions and thoughts by different authors and Egyptologists, resumed, compressed into one single theory.
Archeologist Mark Lehner writes:
It is pretty dear that the 4th Dynasty builders created the Sphinx, its temple, and the Khafre Valley Temple as a continuous architectural landscaping project. The ancient quarrymen created a U-shaped ditch, freeing a block from which they carved the Sphinx.
They took the stone away in huge blocks that formed the cores of the walls of the Sphinx and Khafre Valley temples. They completed the walls with a casing of red granite from Aswan and finished the floors with white Egyptian alabaster.
Plenty of other studies have been done on the monument in the last few decades, and most of them conclude, based on the surrounding temples and design elements, as well as the rocks used in the construction of some of these temples, that the Sphinx was built during the singular construction phase commissioned by Khafre.
Swiss architect-Egyptologist, Herbert Ricke, studied the Sphinx Temple between 1967 and 1970 and concluded that it was created along with the Sphinx and the Khafre Valley Temple as part of the same quarry and construction process. Just a decade later, in 1980, Thomas Aigner, a geologist from the University of Tubingen, reinforced the idea postulated ten years before by Ricke, based on the study of the geological layers in the Sphinx and each of the 173 core blocks in the Sphinx Temple.
In 1910 when the temple was beneath 15 meters of debris, Uvo Holscher, the excavator of the Khafre pyramid temples, already recognized that the Sphinx and Valley Temple were built concurrently.