Isn't the sphinx's nose in a mueseum?

Question

Isnt it? if you can tell me, do you know what museum?

Answer 1

The one-meter-wide nose on the face is missing. A legend that the nose was broken off by a cannon ball fired by Napoléon's soldiers still survives, as do diverse variants indicting British troops, Mamluks, and others. However, sketches of the Sphinx by Frederick Lewis Norden made in 1737 and published in 1755 illustrate the Sphinx without a nose. The Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the vandalism to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose. Al-Maqrizi describes the Sphinx as the "Nile talisman" on which the locals believed the cycle of inundation depended.

Curious and droll fictional explanations of the nose's disappearance occasionally appear in modern entertainment set in vaguely appropriate times, such as in Asterix and Cleopatra.

In addition to the lost nose, a ceremonial pharaonic beard is thought to have been attached, although this may have been added in later periods after the original construction. Egyptologist Rainer Stadelmann has posited that the rounded divine beard may not have existed in the Old or Middle Kingdoms, only being conceived of in the New Kingdom to identify the Sphinx with the god Horemakhet. This may also relate to the later fashion of pharaohs, which was to wear a plaited beard of authority—a false beard (chin straps are actually visible on some statues), since Egyptian culture mandated that men be clean shaven. Pieces of this beard are today kept in the British Museum and the Egyptian Museum.

Answer 2

Two answers come to my feeble little mind.
1.) It was used for target practice during WWII. I think I read that it was done by British soldiers. Presumably dust around the Sphinx.
2.) The Sphinx's nose was shot off by a cannonball during practice firing by soldiers of Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign in 1798. .

The nose no longer exists and probably is dust at the feet of the Sphinx.

Which is historically correct? I don't know, but this should give you some ideas where to look.

Answer 3

Shall give you the answer that is recognised and taught in University Egyptology courses!
Napoleon did not use it for target practise. He was an avid collector of Egyptian Antiquities and studied the field.
Neither was it shot of by WW2 marksmen.
Its was blown apart with gunpowder in an attempt to destroy the whole head of the Sphinx in the 14th century by a radical local Sheik who took considered it an idol (only the head was visible at that time).He felt it was against the tenets of Islam and therefore an abomination.
You get these stories even from some "guides"(?)at Giza.
Before I began studies at Uni in Egyptology I thought Napoleon was to blame also.Poor Napoleon, he was responsible for taking a lot of Egypt's Antiquities to France, but never responsible for destroying any.
It would take a lot of rounds of "ammo" to do that much damage.
If you are going to Egypt its a good way to judge how much your guide knows(some have no knowledge),if you ask this sort of Q before you pay him/her.

Answer 4

The Sphinx's nose was blown off by a cannonball on the orders of Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign in 1798. What a waste. The nose no longer exists, but contemporary drawings of the Sphinx with its nose intact still do.

Answer 5

I have yet to read any historical documentation stating that nose of Sphinx has ever been found. That does not mean that it was not found when the Sphinx was discovered. I, like you, would very much like to know what happened to it and where it is today.

Answer 6

It does not suprise me for this reason of reality an surprising variety of whites relatively people who're no longer artists thinks a skinny nostril in the present day makes a face extra effective captivating and that's an attempt to coach dominance over a distinctive variety of human beings. inspite of the shown fact that it relatively is extremely like the decreasing of Lucianos face in Mobsters. it relatively is extremely in basic terms jealous, sh(thead habit no remember what group the people who do it declare to be. that's in the event that they did it.

Answer 7

I think the sphinx's nose is nose dust somewhere in egypt

Answer 8

I've never heard about it being found.. I know that Napoleon shot it and thus it fell.. but that's the end of the story as I know it

Answer 9

Nope, its up some female sphinx's butt trying to get some action...

Answer 10

dear of course not..
read some history and you find out that it had been broken by some idiots and ageing matters