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The Great Sphinx, Egypt Image Attribution: Xavier Fargas The reclining statue of the Great Sphinx sits to the northeast of Chephren's (Khafra's) Valley Temple on the west bank of the Nile. The soft sandstone forms a body of 200 feet long and 65 feet tall. The face of the sphinx is 13 feet wide and its eyes are 6 feet high. Part of the uraeus (sacred cobra), the nose and the ritual beard are now missing ( the beard is now displayed in the British Museum).
It is likely that the Sphinx was built to represent Chephren. If correct, it would make this monolith the oldest known royal portrait of this scale. (Although it is worth noting that other scholars believe that the style is more indicative of the Pharaoh Khufu (2589-2566 BCE), whilst others would hold that the the body was not originally intended to represent a lion but rather that of a dog or jackel, therefore intending the sculpture to be in the image of the god Anubis.)
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