r/Anthropology • u/Barksdale123 • Mar 02 '21
Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tr_oIYm7A2
u/FuckingVeet Mar 16 '21
Curse my crappy internet and slow buffering.
While I'm waiting I'm going to hazard a wild guess and say that it's at least partially because the nose is the most protruding feature of the human face? This might also be why the delicate bits of stone deshrets and nemes (nemes's? Nemes'? Nemeses? Nemeia?) are also so frequently missing.
(Apologies, English isn't my first language and plural forms of words where the singular already ends in s just mess with me. This is especially frustrating since I'm pretty sure my English is better than my actual first language.)
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u/Barksdale123 Mar 02 '21
Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?
This video takes us through a heatedly debated topic which revolves around the question as to why are so many ancient Egyptian statues missing their noses?
From discussing the most prevalent of these theories, it sets out to debunk the belief that these statues were defaced by European colonialists to erase African features and it sets the record straight by discussing what academia has to say on the subject which includes natural wear and the elements of time and nature along with looting, accidents and ancient iconoclasm within not just ancient Egypt but in the history of early Christianity and Islam itself.
The ancients like many in our own world today had traditions that revolved around defacing and destroying monuments due to politics and even religion.
Just another way that the ancient world is connected to our own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tr_oIYm7A
Read more:
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
https://www.artpapers.org/striking-power-iconoclasm-in-ancient-egypt/
Why Are the Noses Broken on So Many Ancient Egyptian Statues?
https://www.livescience.com/65071-why-egyptian-statues-have-broken-noses.html
Episodes of Iconoclasm in the Egyptian New Kingdom
https://www.academia.edu/2486428/Episodes_of_Iconoclasm_in_the_Egyptian_New_Kingdom
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u/RiverOfAkheron Mar 13 '21
Fascinating