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Unlike the Valley Temple, both the Sphinx enclosure and the Sphinx Temple remained unfinished. The north and east walls of the enclosure are cut back unevenly and insufficiently. The Sphinx Temple lacks in height and work to fit casing blocks was only partially completed.[19] Lehner suggests that a Sphinx cult wasn't established when work ceased prematurely, hence the relative lack of cultural material from the Old Kingdom.[20][21]

Peter Lacovara, an Egyptologist and curator at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, assigns "some of the erosional features" on the enclosure walls to quarrying activities rather than weathering.[22]

The Sphinx was in real bad shape when the Romans arrived ... much of what we see today is the repairs made by the Romans ... and all this had been buried with sand for almost two millennia before Napoleon had it dug out ...

Luckily, someone cut the nose off so now he's not so ugly ... whew ...
 

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