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As I said, we will need to wait for a generation of Egyptologists not so eager to attribute everything to whoever was last to scratch his name onto it.
by ncmncm 4y ago
As I said, we will need to wait for a generation of Egyptologists not so eager to attribute everything to whoever was last to scratch his name onto it.
- wl 4y agoThe technical term for someone carving their name on something someone else had built is "usurpation" and it's hardly an obscure topic in Egyptology. It is definitely something people think of when dating objects and monuments. https://escholarship.org/content/qt5gj996k5/qt5gj996k5.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt5gj996k5/qt5gj996k5.pdf
- ncmncm 4y agoThink of, sure. But act on? By the evidence, incentives run the other way.