Hi Rick,



> 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.


Yeh, 1400 man years of production sounds vast. But it isn't in reality. IF my estimation of two years per statue is correct, then for 350 men working on those statues, the time taken would be four years. Not much. Especially since we don't know during what kind of a period those statues were carved.





> 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.


I don't think the Egyptians "were incapabale of doing two things identical". Look at the double statuary found in the shrine in Tut's tomb. Obviously they wanted those to be identical, because identical they are. I think it is more a question of one person carving a different face from another. Have you seen several Sekhmets at the same time?

What does sponge bob square pants and dolls have to do with this?









Ritva



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