Hi Rick,

The fact that a statue is perfectly smooth to the touch and looks pleasingly polished to the eye doesn't necessarily mean that it was easy to make!
In the previous thread you talked about the some 700 Sekhmets made during AIII's reign. Well, for starters we do not know how long exactly it took to carve those, do we? I think we have been shown that the AEs were rather perceverant in what they set their minds to do. It took them 20 years to build the GP!! What's a statue of Sekhmet compared to that, even if it takes two years (just a suggestion, not a fact) to polish it?
And just for the record, the Sekhmets are not identical. At all. Last summer I saw four of those in the BM and they were all different in the face, like having a slightly different expression. Amazing really.

Ritva