Byrd Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > I wonder how they determined that the "Starving
> of
> > Saqqara" statue is from pre-dynastic times -
> could
> > it be a forgery?
> >
> It could (legitimately) be an "out of place
> artifact"... but we'll never know because of the
> complete lack of provenance.
>
> However, it's clearly not Egyptian... if anything
> it frankly looks more modern (the separation of
> the teeth and tongue in the mouth, the detail on
> the ears) I'd have said it was Chinese... I
> assume since it's not dated by radiocarbon that
> it's stonework.

Yes it is quite odd