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		thaumasiotes on Oct 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? > And often digging out the inscription of the name of the king depicted -- which implies they could read it Does it? Wouldn't the name be set off in a conspicuous cartouche?

iguy on Oct 20, 2020 [–]

I thought this was the claim of TFA being summarised.

They have examples with walls of text from which I can't guess anything, but whether those are representative of inscriptions on so-damaged statues I don't know.

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