Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> 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,

If it took two years to polish them then that would add up to over 1400 man years of production! They had to have some way to speed things up. In addition to that Amen III was aathe most prolific builder we know of.
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.
>
>
Again "Idendtical" is a relative term. One sekhmet wasn't holding a ws scepter while another holding a sponge bob square pants doll. The AE's seemed to be incapapable of making any two things identical in all respects. Look at the guardian staturs in Tut's tomb.
> Ritva