<P> The name may alternatively be a linguistic corruption of the phonetically different ancient Egyptian word Ssp - anx (in Manuel de Codage). This name is given to royal statues of the Fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt (2575--2467 BC) and later in the New Kingdom (c. 1570--1070 BC) to the Great Sphinx more specifically . </P> <P> Medieval Arab writers, including al - Maqrīzī, call the Sphinx balhib and bilhaw, which suggest a Coptic influence . The modern Egyptian Arabic name is أبو الهول (Abū al Hūl, English: The Terrifying One). </P> <P> Though there have been conflicting evidence and viewpoints over the years, the view held by modern Egyptology at large remains that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC for the pharaoh Khafra, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza . </P> <P> Selim Hassan, writing in 1949 on recent excavations of the Sphinx enclosure, summed up the problem: </P>

The great sphinx is associated with which pharaoh’s pyramid