[dangus]

Yes, but those aren’t sphinxes.

[muawiyah]

Give me some wooden wedges and some copper chisels and they can be anything you want.

As it is the original stoney body, at the then surface level, was simply finished into its present form. The lower body of the Sphinx was cut out of the rock. They quarried around the original rock and built a temple nearby.

There are some drawings of the whole enterprise that give you some idea of the different levels involved and the scale of the structure.