lunes, 31 de agosto de 2015

Limesstone fragment of the beard of the sphinx.



Limesstone fragment of the beard of the sphinx.

Eighteenth dynasty
about 1420 BC

From Giza

The beards was probably made durung restoration work undertaken in the New Kingdom and does not date to the original construction of the sphinx in the old kingdom, about 2550

EA 58

British Museum

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