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Author Talk
Why are there so many broken noses on Ancient Egyptian statues? Why would anyone deface a statue, anyway? And once they’d decided to do it, why the nose? Why not the ears or the eyes? It wasn’t only statues that were defaced, it was also friezes. Nor did it only occur in the Old Kingdom; it happened in the Middle and New Kingdom as well. This illustrated talk explores and seeks to explain the reasons for this curious phenomenon.
