Sphinx

Sphinx

c. 2575-2525 BCE

1694

built works

Egypt (nation)

Pyramids of Giza (ruins)

Old Kingdom (Egyptian)

Sphinxes (Mythology)

colossi

View of the Sphinx with pyramids in background at the Giza Plateau in Egypt. "The most famous sphinx is the gigantic sphinx at Giza which is part of the funerary complex of Chephren (Khafre); is is located beside the pharaoh's Valley Temple and the covered causeway that led to the Mortuary Temple beside the pyramid. It was sculpted from an outcropping of limestone and represented the sun god; its features were probably those of Chephren, the builder of the second pyramid at Giza. While it has a god's face, it has a lion's body. The royal headdress originally had the uraeus--the sacred serpent--but it was used for target practice by the Turks and thus lost not only the uraeus but the nose,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.

sandstone

65' H; 240' L

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