pour info, j'ai trouvé cet article intéressant (en anglais) discutant la datation et l'attribution du sphinx
http://www.gizabuildingproject.com/art_reader1.php
Giza Before the Fourth Dynasty, by Colin Reader, in Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum (JACF) 9 (2002)
extrait de l'introduction :
cordialement,There has been a great deal of debate about the age of the Great Sphinx of Giza, much of which has focussed on the weathering of the limestones from which the Sphinx was excavated. [1] This debate tends to have focussed on the Sphinx itself without addressing the wider implications of an early Sphinx for the Giza necropolis or ancient Egyptian history in general. It is geologist Colin Reader's view that the evidence provided by the weathered and eroded limestone rocks at Giza, clearly indicates that the Sphinx pre-dates the 4th Dynasty. However, rather than suggesting that the early Sphinx is an isolated relic of a long-lost culture, without context or provenance, the geo-archaeological investigations of Giza are beginning to lift the veil on a little-appreciated Early Dynastic origin for the site.
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