August 13, 2007 01:34PM
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>Is this true ? Is the evdience dating the Sphinx to Khafre based on ONE SINGLE SYLLABLE on a stella that was erected almost 1000 years after his supposed death ????<
No
Even if the stella said "Khafre built the Sphinx" it wouldn't prove it as it was carved so long after. I'm not aware of any dating of the Sphinx that actually relies on this inscription. It's just one small part of a mass of evidence and not a particularly important part.
Where did your quote come from by-the-way?
I've been looking at the earliest drawing of the Dream Stella I know of, which is Caviglia's sketch. The partial Khafre cartouche is quite clear. Vyse used Caviglia's drawing as the basis for his plate but it's not quite as well drawn. Most illustrations now seen to rely on Lepsius's plate but I think he redrew Vyse's plate with a better knowledge of hieroglyphs and he "restores" some characters but it doesn't change the cartouche of Khafre he just "completes" it.
Sadly this part of the stela is now unreadable as far as I can make out. Caviglia made his sketch in 1817 twenty years before Vyse and even more before Lepsius and the area was already in a poor state when Caviglia uncovered it.
Jon
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