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and events. This artwork is not on display Khafre was the son of
Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. He built his own pyramid,
the Second Pyramid, at Giza just to the south of his father's.
Khafre's pyramid complex included a mortuary temple on the east
side of the pyramid which was connected by a long causeway to a
valley temple. To the north and northwest of the valley temple
he constructed the Harmakhis Temple and the Great Sphinx. Many
statues and fragments of astonishing quality and in a spectrum
of fine stones were recovered from these temples or in their
vicinity. This fragment was found at Giza and entered the
MacGregor collection; its similarity to the faces of statues of
the king from his temples and the traces of a royal beard on the
chin identify it