Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Harte Wrote:
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> > Why does the sphinx enclosure follow Kahfre's
> > Causeway along the length of one side?
>
> The question is why does the G2 causeway conform
> to the Sphinx enclosure, not the otherway around.
> To some Egyptologists, and others, this has always
> suggested the Sphinx enclosure was there first and
> the causeway was made to effectively "go around
> it".

Except the causeway doesn't "go around it."

You can clearly see that the enclosure veers off on the south side, conforming to the causeway.
Unless you propose that the enclosure always was shaped that way, and the causeway just happened to take advantage of that angle to run straight to Khafre's pyramid.

Khafre's temple could have been built at the end of a causeway that was perpendicular to the pyramid face. The Sphinx is not in the way there, so why did the construct the complex thusly, with the sphinx in the middle of everything already?

>
> > Has the point been made that a larger head for
> the
> > sphinx wouldn't have been supported by the soft
> > limestone of the neck?
>
> This is conjecture and the neck may have at one
> time been larger regardless as well as a larger
> head does not mean "huge" by comparison to what is
> seen today, just "larger".

Except it would require a much greater overhung load on the neck, resulting in a much larger force to be resisted. It's not just a matter of weight. There's torque involved.

I get what you're saying about the lack of OK evidence though. But we don't have a whole lot from the OK so maybe that's the answer to that.

Harte