The Sphinx was basically buried in sand as much as its shoulders right up until the early 1800s, any time a Genoese adventurer named Capt. Giovanni Battista Caviglia tried (and eventually unsuccessful) to dig out the statue with a crew of one hundred sixty men. Male purushamriga or Indian sphinx https://www.luxreisen.net/blog/weihnachten-in-aegypten-feiern