AR / ITEM / 00100199
Great Sphinx of Tanis
Maker unknown
Monumental royal sphinx from Tanis repeatedly reinscribed by later Egyptian rulers.
- Date
- Old/Middle Kingdom, later reinscribed
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre
- Reference
- N 23
Plate not recorded
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Record
- Medium
- Pink granite
- Dimensions
- 183 × 480 × 154 cm
- Origin
- Egypt
- Owner
- French State
In the Tapestry
- Culture of origin
- Ancient EgyptA
Provenance and history
Old/Middle Kingdom, later reinscribed
CreatedA
Sources
- A
collections.louvre.fr
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