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the best sphinx i ever saw were the pair on Woolworht's tomb/mausaleum (with fiberbabe) --they had a pair of knockers on them (complete with pointy nipples!) that any hollywood starlet would happy buy!)
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Yes! tsuwm! That is what I was really looking for, the best! Added to my favorites.
Oh, of Troy, when you Google sphinx-images or centaur-images,you get the whole Walhalla hell of bad taste in countless pages. The barest kitsch from all over the world.
That's funny cartoon as well, twosleepy.
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Ok i found a link to an image of Fw woolworths tomb and the well endowed sphinx---you can zoom in on the image to see what i mean..
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Seems it wasn't Obelix's gravitas, Napoleon's archaeologists, or Mameluke artillery practice, but something else: The nose was probably removed in the 8th century AD by a Sufi who considered the Sphinx a blasphemous idol, but all that can be said for certain, based on the tool marks that remain, is that it was deliberately pried off with chisels. The Sphinx's face, which in ancient times was painted dark red, was also decorated with a stone beard and displayed a sculpted cobra on its forehead, both of which have also fallen off. This may explain why for much of the Sphinx's later history, its face was interpreted as a woman's ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Thanks of Troy, I zoomed in as far as the sphinx's feet and saw a decently stylized pair of sphinxes. Then I did the whole tour of the cemetary. (slide show) And listened to the life of the rich and famous and the brave.
Zmjehzd, that story seems to come as close as it can get to the truth, vandalism.
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Last year i did a real life tour of the cemetary with Fiberbabe (who used to/occationally posts here).
as a child i lived near it.. and learned to drive on one of the public roads around the cemetary (the other side of the road was a park/highway/train) so there was very little pedestrian traffic (and my father figured i could learn to drive with out killing anyone!)
It really is a beautiful park (and we enjoyed our selves so much, we lost track of time and ended up getting locked in!)
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The Sphinx's face, which in ancient times was painted dark red, was also decorated with a stone beard and displayed a sculpted cobra on its forehead, both of which have also fallen off. This may explain why for much of the Sphinx's later history, its face was interpreted as a woman's ( link). Doesn't mean it wasn't a woman's face just because it had a beard. I seem to remember reading somewhere that even women rulers were depicted sometimes with the ceremonial plaited goatee thing - it was kind of like a badge of office.
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