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Luxor Karnak Ram Sphinxes EG074851jhp Karnak Temple Luxor Crio-sphinx Rams Heads relocated Courtyard Line Horns is located near Luxor City centre on the East Bank of the River Nile and it the largest religious complex on the Nile. In this photo are a row of relocated sphinxes, known as crio-sphinxes, as they take the form of ram with a lion's body straddling a small form of the pharaoh here by the colonnade of the first court behind the first pylon. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Karnak, Temple, East Bank, River Nile, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, landscape, crio-sphinxes, cryosphinxes, ram, head, lion, body, relocated, row, sandstone, unfinished, colonnade, columns, roughcut, carving, building, construction, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, hieroglyphics, blocks, first, court
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Karnak Temple
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Luxor Karnak Ram Sphinxes EG074851jhp
Upload Date: 2007-10-19 08:05:52
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Karnak Temple Luxor Crio-sphinx Rams Heads relocated Courtyard Line Horns

is located near Luxor City centre on the East Bank of the River Nile and it the largest religious complex on the Nile. In this photo are a row of relocated sphinxes, known as crio-sphinxes, as they take the form of ram with a lion's body straddling a small form of the pharaoh here by the colonnade of the first court behind the first pylon.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Karnak, Temple, East Bank, River Nile, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, landscape, crio-sphinxes, cryosphinxes, ram, head, lion, body, relocated, row, sandstone, unfinished, colonnade, columns, roughcut, carving, building, construction, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, hieroglyphics, blocks, first, court