Ben van Kerkwyk
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There's one with an arm and a shoulder sort of poking out that's a really good example.
In later periods, like in the New Kingdom, they had some more iron, not necessarily steel.
But you notice something else here.
See how poor that is relative to the finishing of the face and the chest.
So this is the other thing that happened.
This is why no one's sort of like you don't get archaeologists saying, well, there's statues.
We don't know who made it.
We know who made it because they put their name on it.
That is literally Ramsey's II's cartouche right there.
I recognize it anyway.
That's awesome that you recognize that.
If you come to Egypt, you'll recognize it too.
Petrie called Ramses II the great usurper because he put his name on fucking everything.
And he carved it in deep like this too.
Him and his father, Seti I and his son, Meron Ptah, they were all –
They were all in that business of rebadging some of this stuff.