The tomb paintings associated with the Pharaonic era are the basis of Beckett's second stop in her History of Painting.
The time is 3000 BC.
Recent scholarship, btw, links the construction of the Sphinx to the builder of the second great pyramid, Pharaoh Kahfre.
The Egyptian sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion . There are, however, sphinxes with ram heads that are associated with the god Amun.
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