I’m totally with you on this one. I can see the current head being a later replacement.
Although: Anubis had the body of a man, not a lion, so that theory is fucked. If there was a different original head, it was probably something else: a lion, or an eagle, or something; the ancients loved to mix up animal parts in their mythos, so roll a dodecahedron for what it could have been. Not one of the main Egyptian gods, though: those were all human-body, animal-head. Putting one of those on the Sphinx body makes absolutely no sense, and OPOP is a garden-variety moron.
P.S. that silhouette also just looks like a Doberman, which is twice as dumb.
I’m pretty sure that big ole nose would require modern reinforced materials. maybe they tried and failed to make the anubis, but i doubt it would’ve worked very well.
Re-carved anyway, although I’d like to know what happened to all the original stone. You’d think we’d be able to find it. It’s a lot of stone based on that drawing.
At the age they were building pyramids and would have supposedly recarved the Sphinx, they were mostly using very large stone blocks. They only switched to smaller stone blocks in the Amarna period when Akhenaten had them do it to speed up construction. But that was centuries later.
Calling it a conspiracy [theory] is a little insane, but this is otherwise downright plausible compared to the pyramid power plant stuff.
I’m totally with you on this one. I can see the current head being a later replacement.
Although: Anubis had the body of a man, not a lion, so that theory is fucked. If there was a different original head, it was probably something else: a lion, or an eagle, or something; the ancients loved to mix up animal parts in their mythos, so roll a dodecahedron for what it could have been. Not one of the main Egyptian gods, though: those were all human-body, animal-head. Putting one of those on the Sphinx body makes absolutely no sense, and OPOP is a garden-variety moron.
P.S. that silhouette also just looks like a Doberman, which is twice as dumb.
I would also say that claiming it is “not an original” suggests that it’s a copy rather than not being the original carving.
I’m pretty sure that big ole nose would require modern reinforced materials. maybe they tried and failed to make the anubis, but i doubt it would’ve worked very well.
They’re saying the head was replaced. Better phrasing would be that it is not in its original form.
Re-carved anyway, although I’d like to know what happened to all the original stone. You’d think we’d be able to find it. It’s a lot of stone based on that drawing.
Reused, most likely
On what? You can’t just chip stone off a statue and then hope you find a use for it.
You can chop it into smaller blocks to use on something nearby, idk honestly but I’d just assume it’s easier than bringing a new block from quarry
At the age they were building pyramids and would have supposedly recarved the Sphinx, they were mostly using very large stone blocks. They only switched to smaller stone blocks in the Amarna period when Akhenaten had them do it to speed up construction. But that was centuries later.
If I drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa I think it’s fair to no longer call it an original.
Why? Is there an original somewhere else once you do that?
Your artwork would be an original. It’s not an unaltered mona Lisa, but it’s still an original painting.