 The Dream Stele, between the paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza | |
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| Location | Giza, Egypt |
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| Region | Egypt |
| Coordinates | 29°58′31″N 31°08′16″E / 29.97528°N 31.13778°E |
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The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. As was common with other New Kingdom rulers, the epigraph makes claim to a divine legitimisation of kingship.[1]
- ^ Shaw, Ian (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Hardback ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 254. ISBN 0-19-815034-2.