# The Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the…

> Most likely: The Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the Sphinx Temple.

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# The Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the…

The Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the Sphinx Temple.

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## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: four pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The core blocks of the Sphinx Temple come from the beds removed from the Sphinx ditch.
- The ditch was cut after the Khafre causeway and its drainage channel.
- No securely dated material older than the Fourth Dynasty lies in the enclosure or under the Sphinx Temple.
- The original head, beneath later repairs, is consistent in style with Khafre's statuary.

## What would rule it out

- Securely dated pre-Khufu material sealed beneath the Sphinx Temple floor or in an undisturbed cut of the ditch, or a stratigraphic relationship showing the ditch was cut before Khufu's quarries.

## Evidence 4 for · 2 against

[A drainage channel along the north side of Khafre's causeway opens into the upper corner of the ditch, which…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSEEJ4516/a-drainage-channel-along-the-north-side-of-khafres-causeway)

Suggestive

FOR

[Fossil beds in the Sphinx Temple's core blocks match the strata of the Sphinx ditch, so the temple was built…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSE6R7HVQ/fossil-beds-in-the-sphinx-temples-core-blocks-match-the)

Supported

FOR

[Hawass and Lehner found three blocks abandoned in the Sphinx quarry on their way to the Sphinx Temple,…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSEY67VCE/hawass-and-lehner-found-three-blocks-abandoned-in-the-sphinx)

Suggestive

FOR

[The Sphinx stands at the valley end of Khafre's causeway beside his Valley Temple, which held a life-size…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSEPC365V/the-sphinx-stands-at-the-valley-end-of-khafres-causeway)

Supported

FOR

[No Old Kingdom text names the Sphinx or its maker.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSF605M10/no-old-kingdom-text-names-the-sphinx-or-its-maker)

Suggestive

AGAINST

[The Sphinx body and ditch are far more deeply rounded than the facades of Fourth Dynasty tombs elsewhere on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSFDT176V/the-sphinx-body-and-ditch-are-far-more-deeply-rounded-than)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[When was the Great Sphinx carved?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/questions/QST0CTWSCG26180/when-was-the-great-sphinx-carved)

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