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Can you give a couple of cites for this, I've never heard of it before and I'm curious, thanks

• smiley1437 3y ago
  One reason I've read is that people (graverobbers?) were superstitious and afraid of statues, and breaking the nose off meant it couldn't 'breathe' and thus had no more life force: https://suzannelovellinc.com/blog/where-did-egyptian-statues-broken-noses-go/ https://suzannelovellinc.com/blog/where-did-egyptian-statues...
• angiosperm 3y ago
  https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/iconoclasm-of-the-vanities-why-we-are-destroying-statues/ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/iconoclasm-of-the... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/28/the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classical-world-by-catherine-nixey https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/28/the-darkening-... [Note: this article accepts as factual late-Christian exaggerations of Roman persecution.] https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-egyptian-statues-broken-noses https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-egyptian-statu... [Note: this article confuses details about worship of Amun.]
  • OfSanguineFire 3y ago
    None of your links are to actual scholarship on Christian treatment of pagan infrastructure. If a person asks for a citation about a historical claim, it’s polite to point to something from a university press, instead of mere popular-journalism articles which are hardly more trustworthy than an HN comment.
    • angiosperm 3y ago
      Scholars know how to do their own searches. Popular articles are more accessible to the people who need the help.