The Louvre acquired it in 1826 as part of the second Egyptian collection of Henry Salt, whose purchase was led on behalf of the French state by Jean-François Champollion. Initially, plans were made to place it outdoors, at the center of the Cour Carrée,[2] but they were not implemented. Instead, the sphinx was exhibited in the museum's courtyard, since then known as the cour du Sphinx, from 1828 until 1848,[3] when it was relocated to the galerie Henri IV, still now the main monumental sculpture room of the museum's Egyptian Department. In the mid-1930s, the Sphinx was transferred to its present location in the crypt created by Louvre architect Albert Ferran to connect the two halves of the southern wing of the Cour Carrée.
great, sphinx, tanis, granite, sculpture, sphinx, whose, date, early, 26th, century, discovered, ruins, temple, amun, tanis, egypt, capital, during, 21st, dynasty, 23rd, dynasty, created, much, earlier, when, exactly, remains, debated, with, hypotheses, dynast. The Great Sphinx of Tanis is a granite sculpture of a sphinx whose date may be as early as the 26th century BC It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun Ra in Tanis Egypt s capital during the 21st Dynasty and the 23rd Dynasty It was created much earlier but when exactly remains debated with hypotheses of the 4th Dynasty or the 12th Dynasty 1 All that is left of its original inscription are the parts alluding to pharaohs Amenemhat II 12th Dynasty Merneptah 19th Dynasty and Shoshenq I 22nd Dynasty Great Sphinx of TanisMaterialGraniteCreatedc 2550 BCDiscoveredTanis Sharqia EgyptPresent locationParis Ile de France FranceThe Louvre acquired it in 1826 as part of the second Egyptian collection of Henry Salt whose purchase was led on behalf of the French state by Jean Francois Champollion Initially plans were made to place it outdoors at the center of the Cour Carree 2 but they were not implemented Instead the sphinx was exhibited in the museum s courtyard since then known as the cour du Sphinx from 1828 until 1848 3 when it was relocated to the galerie Henri IV still now the main monumental sculpture room of the museum s Egyptian Department In the mid 1930s the Sphinx was transferred to its present location in the crypt created by Louvre architect Albert Ferran to connect the two halves of the southern wing of the Cour Carree See also editSphinx of MemphisNotes edit Statue colossale Sphinx de Tanis Louvre Lebrun 1828 Manuel complet du voyageur dans Paris ou Nouveau guide de l etranger dans cette capitale Paris Roret p 131 Guillaume Fonkenell 2018 Le Louvre Le palais a travers les siecles Paris Honore Clair Louvre editions p 49 nbsp This article about Egyptology is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Great Sphinx of Tanis amp oldid 1216611295, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
