Assertion: sphinx | /r/HasProperty | carved
Facets:
value: out of the stone
type: OTHER
value: from one piece of limestone
type: OTHER
value: earlier than any other monuments
type: OTHER
value: originally
type: OTHER
value: during this period
type: TEMPORAL
value: from the rock
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The Sphinx was not assembled piece by piece but was carved from a single mass of limestone exposed when workers dug a horseshoe-shaped quarry in the Giza plateau.
text: Apparently, workmen, probably using ropes and wooden sledges, hauled away the quarried blocks to construct the temple as the Sphinx was being carved out of the stone.
text: The headdress (known as the 'nemes' head-cloth), with its fold over the top of the head and its triangular planes behind the ears, the presence of the royal 'uraeus' cobra on the brow, the treatment of the eyes and lips all evidence that the Sphinx was carved during this period.
text: There is no firm evidence demonstrating when the Sphinx was originally carved.
text: One of the Egyptologists used in the article says " The Sphinx is actually carved from the rock that remained from the stones quarried away after building the pyramids.
text: There is no concrete information about why it was carved or its significance.
text: The Sphinx is credited to him because the creature's face resembles his as it appears in statuary and because of the way in which the Sphinx seems to have been carved.
text: Christiansen found evidence that shows that at least some of the erosion took place before the Sphinx was carved.
text: He stated that water most likely seeped through natural fissures in the limestone before the Sphinx had been carved, causing the walls of the Sphinx enclosure to look like they were carved much earlier than they really were.
text: As such, Christiansen determined that there was no geological evidence to suggest the Sphinx was carved earlier than any other monuments on the Giza plateau.
text: The sphinx was carved from a single piece of stone.
text: Built by the forced labor of hundreds of Pharaoh Kafre's slaves, the sphinx was carved from one piece of limestone.
text: Could this be designating the approximate date when the Sphinx was carved?
text: The Sphinx was carved from the bedrock of the Giza plateau, a single ridge of limestone that is 73 meters long and 20 meters high.
text: The Sphinx was carved right out of the natural mother rock of the Giza Plateau.