1 Jun 2500 Jahr v. Chr. - Great Sphinx

Beschreibung:

Date: 2,500 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: Limestone

Location: Giza, Egypt
- Fragment of the Sphinx's beard in the British Museum

Function:
- believed that they would protect the pyramids
- cats were royal animals in ancient Egypt


Form:
- generalized features
- in situ
- body of a lion
- head of a Pharaoh
- head is badly damaged
- originally was painted to stand out in the desert

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