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The Sphinx As previously noted, the Spinx at Giza puzzles me. It's not just the usual that puzzles everyone else, but the scale of it bugs me. The pharaoh's head is not even remotely proportional to the body. It's too small, by nearly half. It just looks wrong. I sincerely feel that the Sphinx was originally a lion, head and all, but a pharaoh had it reworked much later to carve his image out of the lion's head. At the time of alteration, if the head were as weathered as the body, then it would suit the purposes of both power and esthetics to rework it. I should think it would have been easy enough to carve the lion's head down to resemble a pharaoh, but of course, it would have to be smaller, thus throwing off the proportions. 
The body is perfectly proportioned to a real lion: extension of front paws, height of back, length to rump, even the hind legs. But, the pharaoh's head is almost comically small by comparison. This is especially noticeable in a face-on view where the front legs extend ridiculously, IF it's a pharaoh sphinx and not a lion. 
I obviously agree with others who support an alternate history for Giza. The Sphinx is much older than the egyptologists think and they're just confused because it has a pharaoh's head. Thus they have to work the whole thing into their prescribed chronology. However, it makes more sense to me that the original lion marked the Age of Leo, roughly 10,000-8,000 BCE. Next in Sequence Select From Menu |
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