\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 The pharaoh is often represented in the form of a sphinx, the symbolic animal of Egypt.\par
The face of this sphinx is a portrait of
the Pharaoh Amenemhet II, but the inscriptions carved on its body and the base include the names of three later pharaohs: the statue was therefore reused several times.\par
It may have stood in the courtyard of a temple: in fact the ceremonial entrances
to shrines often took the form of avenues lined with sphinxes.\par
The portrait has the typical attributes of the pharaoh: the headgear known as a \i nemes\i0 and the false beard.
