The ARCE SPHINX PROJECT (1979-1983) aimed to create scale drawings (plans as well as elevations) of the Great Sphinx of Giza, where no scale drawings of this unique monument had been produced before, to map the greater Sphinx site, including 3 ancient Egyptian temples situated due east of the statue, as well as the larger quarry forming the Sphinx "amphitheater." Objectives included elevations, profiles, as well as a detailed main excogitation of the Sphinx, detailed department as well as profile drawings showing the masonry restorations added to the statue, topographical maps of the Sphinx ditch as well as larger quarry, as well as maps of the structural geology of the site, showing stratification as well as faults.
The stance was that nosotros could laissez passer a ameliorate agreement of the rootage of the Sphinx as well as how the fourth Dynasty Egyptians created the Sphinx from careful, recorded observations of its construction as well as geology, as well as that a adept business office of the history of the Sphinx could endure read from detailed survey as well as mapping of the stratified masonry on the Sphinx, as well as from the status of the bedrock centre nether the earliest masonry, equally good equally from analysis of tool marks as well as mortar bonding the dissimilar phases.
Dr. James Allen, as well as then Assistant Director of the American Research Center (now Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University) applied equally Project Director to the Egyptian Antiquities Organization to survey as well as map the Sphinx. Mark Lehner served equally Field Director. Ulrich Kapp (German Archaeological Institute inwards Cairo) carried out the photogrammetric survey as well as plotted the main profiles as well as elevations of the Sphinx. Team members included Christiane Zivie-Coche (Director, Centre Wladimir Golenischeff, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Egyptology), Attila Vass (survey), Susan Allen (now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, survey), Peter Lacovara (then Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, forthwith The Ancient Egyptian Egyptian Heritage as well as Archaeology Fund, survey) as well as Cynthia Schartzer (archaeology, survey), K. Lal Gauri (University of Louisville, geology), as well as Thomas Aigner (University of Tübingen, geology). The ARCE SPHINX PROJECT ARCHIVE includes written, drawn, as well as color slide photographs as well as dark as well as white photographs. Drawings include:
- Master elevations of the forepart as well as sides of the Sphinx, scale 1:50.
- Master excogitation of the Sphinx, scale 1:50
- Detailed maps of the fourth Dynasty Khafre Valley Temple, the Sphinx Temple, as well as the 18th Dynasty Amenhotep II Temple, scale 1:100
- Topographical as well as geological maps of the wider Sphinx “amphitheater,” scale 1:200
- 1:1,000 map of the Sphinx as well as modern installations to the East equally of 1979
- Detailed architectural sections as well as elevations of the stratified ancient masonry layers applied to the Sphinx bedrock centre body, scale 1:20 as well as 1:10
- 5,000 slides
- 2,716 dark as well as white photographs
- Profile of the Sphinx expanse alongside H2O tabular array measurements taken during 1981-82.
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