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[[File:Back of Sphinx, Giza Egypt.JPG|thumb|Retro di una sfinge a [[Giza]], [[Egitto]].]]

==Egyptian sphinxesLe sfingi egizie ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Great Sphinx of Giza]] -->

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What names their builders gave to these [[statue]]s is not known. At the Great Sphinx site, the inscription on a [[stele]] by [[Thutmose IV]] in 1400 BCE, lists the names of three aspects of the local sun deity of that period, ''[[Khepera]]–[[Rê]]–[[Atum]]''. The inclusion of these figures in tomb and [[Egyptian temple|temple]] complexes quickly became traditional and many pharaohs had their heads carved atop the guardian statues for their tombs to show their close relationship with the powerful solar deity, [[Sekhmet]], a lioness. Other famous Egyptian sphinxes include one bearing the head of the pharaoh [[Hatshepsut]], with her likeness carved in [[granite]], which is now in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York, and the [[alabaster]] [[sphinx of Memphis]], [[Memphis, Egypt]], currently located within the open-air museum at that site. The theme was expanded to form great [[Avenue (landscape)|avenues]] of guardian sphinxes lining the approaches to tombs and temples as well as serving as details atop the posts of flights of stairs to very grand complexes. Nine hundred with ram heads, representing [[Amun|Amon]], were built in [[Thebes (Egypt)|Thebes]], where his cult was strongest.