Great Sphinx of Tanis
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title:
Great Sphinx of Tanis
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The Great Sphinx of Tanis is a granite sculpture of a sphinx, whose date may be as early as the 26th century BC. It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis, Egypt's capital during the 21st Dynasty and the 23rd Dynasty. It was created much earlier, but when exactly remains debated with hypotheses of the 4th Dynasty or the 12th Dynasty. All that is left of its original inscription are the parts alluding to pharaohs Amenemhat II, Merneptah and Shoshenq I. The Louvre acquired i
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Granite sphinx in the collections of the Louvre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Tanis
date created:
2018-07-12T12:09:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T08:11:57Z
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