Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Hi Rick,
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> > If it took two years to polish them then
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> > They had to have some way to speed things up.
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> > addition to that Amen III was aathe most
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> > builder we know of.
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> 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.
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> > Again "Idendtical" is a relative term. One
> > sekhmet wasn't holding a ws scepter while
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> > holding a sponge bob square pants doll. The
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> > seemed to be incapapable of making any two
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> > identical in all respects. Look at the
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> > staturs in Tut's tomb.
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> 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?

Nope I've never seen any of the Sekhmet statues up close. There is one statue in Hearst's castle but I saw it from behind velvet ropes many years ago. Didn't get any closer than a hundred feet or so.

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

Nothing just trying to be humorous. Should have put up a
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at 10/24/06 03:45AM by
> ritva.