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A granite sphinx of King Amenemhat III, with the rarer lion’s mane, replacing the usual striped Nemes cloth headdress. 12th dynasty, c1820 BC. Black granite. From a Tanite Temple. Cairo Egyptian Museum. Photography from ‘The Art of Ancient Egypt’, Phaidon Press (Vienna, 1936).

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