The Great Sphinx
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 13, 2026 02:46 PM
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History
tags:
extant remains
A monumental limestone sphinx situated on the Giza plateau, likely connected with the reign of Pharaoh Khafre.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/536839380
29.9752796303, 31.1376381478
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Great Sphinx of Giza (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- أبو الهول (Abū al-Haul: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Great Sphinx (English, modern)
- The Great Sphinx located at Giza (unspecified date range)
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monument
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'The Great Sphinx: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/536839380> [accessed: 05 October 2026]
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