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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr -- a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada -- in AD 1378, upon finding the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest. Enraged, he destroyed the nose, and was later hanged for vandalism. Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the 'talisman of the Nile' on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended.
Student:
why is the nose on the sphinx missing