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Is it silly to assume that a nose would break of the easiest? Like how stretched out arms are usually broken. These statues are very old.
by 42droids 6y ago
Is it silly to assume that a nose would break of the easiest? Like how stretched out arms are usually broken. These statues are very old.
- feralimal 6y agoAt a glance, the black ones appear to be made of granite - this is very tough! You might wonder how they were ever able to make such perfect representations with very hard material 3000+ years ago. And to then polish them so well that the polish still looks good after all this time, as on the picture at the top of that article. However (and whenever) they were made, once made, these are hard and most definitely do NOT break accidentally. Well, not so many of them as that, anyway. If it is granite, I think you could drop a statue like that and it would break your wood or marble floor, rather than break off accidentally.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoI've seen my fair share of cracked, chipped, and otherwise broken granite countertops. Granite can definitely break accidentally and dropping a granite statue could certainly break off chunks of it.
- jazzyjackson 6y agoMaybe the dangling arms of greek statues fall off over time (the article points out that statues held together with dowels are especially susceptible, vs carved from a single block) But a lot of these statues have arms by their side. Further, the author mentions chisel marks and describes where a statue was hit to break it apart. I think the 'iconoclasm' explanation is fairly uncontroversial.