Originally published in hardcover in 2002 -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index

Sphinx. Sphinxes -- The hybrid nature of the sphinx -- The word sphinx. -- The Modern History of the Sphinx. From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century -- Era of excavations -- Great excavations of the twentieth century. -- Description and History of the Sphinx. -- The Old Kingdom: the Sphinx as Part of the Chephren Funerary Complex. -- Transformations of the New Kingdom. Memphis in the new kingdom -- Royal undertakings -- Personal devotion -- The invention of a god: the role and cult of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and the other gods of Giza. -- The New Focus of the First Millennium. The Memphite context -- The trace of sovereigns -- The stela of the daughter of Cheops -- The chapel of Harbes and the priesthoods of Harmakhis -- Harmakhis and his temenos during the last dynasties. -- Greco-Roman Period

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