{
 "id": "building/abu-al-hawl",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "abu-al-hawl",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبو الهول",
  "en": "Abu'l-Hawl (the Sphinx)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تمثال ضخم يقارب الهرم الكبير في وحدة منخفضة من جهة المشرق، يصفه ابن فضل الله العمري مشاهدةً: لا يبين فوق سطح الأرض إلا رأسه وعنقه أشبه شيء برأس راهب حبشي عليه غفّارة، وعلى وجهه صباغ أحمر إلى حُوَّة لم يحُل على طول الأزمان، ولو قام لما قصّر طوله عن عشرين ذراعاً؛ ويُقال إنه طِلسم يمنع الرمل عن المزدرع لأنه على نهاية الرمل إلى جهة الزرع {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 238}.",
  "en": "The colossal statue beside the Great Pyramid in a sunken depression eastward — al-Umari's eyewitness description: only its head and neck show above the ground, like a tonsured Abyssinian monk's head, its face painted red to the ears, unchanged through the ages; standing it would be a good twenty cubits — held to be a talisman keeping the sand off the tilled land {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 238}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 238",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أبو الهول تمثال ضخم يقارب الهرم الكبير في [[place/al-ahram-giza|الأهرام بالجيزة]]، في وحدة منخفضة من جهة المشرق. يصفه ابن فضل الله العمري وصف مشاهدة. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوصف عند العمري",
     "markdown": "لا يظهر فوق سطح الأرض إلا رأسه وعنقه، وهو أشبه شيء برأس راهب حبشي عليه غفّارة. وعلى وجهه صباغ أحمر إلى حُوَّة لم يزل على طول الأزمان. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}\n\nيقول العمري إنه لو قام لما قصّر طوله عن عشرين ذراعاً. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يُقال عنه",
     "markdown": "يُقال إنه طِلسم يمنع الرمل عن المزدرع، لأنه على نهاية الرمل إلى جهة الزرع. وهذا قول منقول عن العمري بصيغة «يُقال». {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: تاريخ التمثال وصانعه، وآراء الباحثين فيه."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/abu-al-hawl",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Sphinx is a huge statue near the Great Pyramid at [[place/al-ahram-giza|the Pyramids of Giza]], in a low area to the east. Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari describes it as an eyewitness. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Umari's description",
     "markdown": "Only its head and neck show above the ground; it looks like the head of an Abyssinian monk wearing a hood. Its face has a red colouring that has lasted through the ages. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}\n\nAl-Umari says that if it stood up, its height would not be less than twenty cubits. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is said about it",
     "markdown": "It is said to be a talisman that keeps sand from the cultivated land, since it stands at the edge of the sand on the side of the farmland. This is a report attributed to al-Umari with the words \"it is said\". {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is not covered here",
     "markdown": "An additional source is needed for the statue's history and its builder, and for what scholars have argued about it."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/abu-al-hawl",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
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   "to": "place/al-ahram-giza",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/al-ahram-giza"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}