# Lehner 1994: Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis

> Mark Lehner, 1994. 8 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The archaeological reply to the redating; source for the causeway-channel argument.

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# Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis

Mark Lehner, 1994. _KMT 5(3), Fall 1994: 40-48_.

Lehner's reply to Schoch: the Debehen tomb is in different strata; the Saqqara mudbrick tombs were buried; the Valley Temple core and granite were built together; the ditch walls were cut sloping by quarrymen; Hassan's causeway channel dates the ditch to late in Khafre's reign; equifinality of weathering forms.

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## What it's used for here

The archaeological reply to the redating; source for the causeway-channel argument.

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[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)

Evidence

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[Lehner argues the comparison tombs are cut in different strata and that the fissures predate quarrying.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSN1G6039/lehner-argues-the-comparison-tombs-are-cut-in-different)

Evidence

EVD

[No pre-dynastic artefact, structure or radiocarbon date has been published from the Sphinx enclosure.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSJBJ638P/no-pre-dynastic-artefact-structure-or-radiocarbon-date-has)

Evidence

EVD

[The causeway drainage channel that opens into the ditch implies the ditch is later than the causeway.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSG582C3Z/the-causeway-drainage-channel-that-opens-into-the-ditch)

Evidence

EVD

[Selim Hassan clears the enclosure and excavates the causeway channel](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/events/EVT0CTWS9T45TM5/selim-hassan-clears-the-enclosure-and-excavates-the-causeway)

EVT

[John Anthony West](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/people/FIG0CTWS5X47CQY/john-anthony-west)

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[Selim Hassan](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/people/FIG0CTWS4P266T4/selim-hassan)

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## Cite it

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Lehner, M. (1994). Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis. KMT 5(3), Fall 1994: 40-48. https://www.hallofmaat.com/?p=263
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