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Location

  • Egypt, Nazlat as Sammān
  • geo:29.975279,31.137777

Period or year

  • -2500? / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Identifiers

Dream Stele - Sphinx Stele

data access 23372

The Sphinx Dream Stela is a stele Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose IV (1401 – 1391 BC or 1397 – 1388 BC) of the XVIII Dynasty which recorded " how the prince Tuthmosis was out hunting in the desert when he fell askthe shadow of the Sphinx. Re-Harakhte, the sun god embodied Sphinx, appeared to him in a dream and promised that if the engulfing the great limestone body was cleared away, the prince *become king.1" This stele erected at the beginning of his rule proves the divine right of his pharaohship.

See:

  1. Peter Clayton, Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1994. pp.112-114
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Stele 

References

  1. ↑P. Clayton 1994, p. 112

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-11-13) , last updated by p. jeffries (2025-12-01), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/23372
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Jeffries, P., Dream Stele - Sphinx Stele. https://vici.org/vici/23372, accessed 2026-11-13.