I don't know.. what do you think is going on with this. That statue looked in good shape. It's not like the carving marble where this nose part can tend to "crumble" off. You gotta wonder about the sphinx at this point, and if it's the similar thing that went on. Where somebody had some kind of beef, about who knows what, for who knows why.. and would go around taking out just the end of the noses on statues. But not mess around with wrecking the whole thing.
You bring about an interesting point about Jews. I think you'd hear how stereotypes of them would be like.. I don't know.. picture those guys in the entertainment industry, but more behind the scenes, running the show, not those on camera. Or in the, I don't know, what types of industries.. things they'd be involved with, like in NY.. I don't know.. diamond industry or something more upper class.. maybe laweyers.. I don't know. Those types of Jews you can get the big nose, right. Mabye somehow back in those days they'd have some kind of beef with whoever types in the statues and it didn't have a type of nose like theirs.. and somebody would bust them off.
Then you get black people who have "broader" type noses.. where it's wider. Not so much like the Jews where it's this more protruding.. let me get the deal here.. lol. Yeah.. looking this up, in google images, I go.. what is this stereotype of jews with big noses. Then you see this stereotypical cartoon where they kind of have arab noses a bit where it goes out.. then this bump or angle down.
Really, eh.. haven't heard of any statues of the virgin Mary where the noses were taken off. Usually it's this really old stuff where they go.. oh that's the weak part of the statue and it'll fall off easier. Or if it falls forward.
Often times the vandalizes will attack the statue with a hammer. Knocking the head or arms off is most common. Toppling over the statues is common too.
who's doing all that vandalism, right.. and how do they access those.. guess that's why they had to put them in museums.. ya even had the sphinx.. which would require a bit more man-power. lol. Saw this trailer of Napoleon shooting cannons higher up the pyramids and was like.. oh.. but no.. that'd wreck the sphinx face.. this is more like guys going up there and just nailing that.
Eh, much of this damage happened prior to the fall of Rome. And while religious zealotry can be in part to blame, the overarching reason for the damage is much simpler and more universal: when you damage the image of a person or diety, you damage that person or diety.
If the statue falls forward the nose is likley the first to hit the floor.
Doesn't explain noses on statues that haven't fallen forward, like the sphinx, or flat 2 dimensional images that have had their noses chiseled off.
I don't know.. what do you think is going on with this. That statue looked in good shape. It's not like the carving marble where this nose part can tend to "crumble" off. You gotta wonder about the sphinx at this point, and if it's the similar thing that went on. Where somebody had some kind of beef, about who knows what, for who knows why.. and would go around taking out just the end of the noses on statues. But not mess around with wrecking the whole thing.
You bring about an interesting point about Jews. I think you'd hear how stereotypes of them would be like.. I don't know.. picture those guys in the entertainment industry, but more behind the scenes, running the show, not those on camera. Or in the, I don't know, what types of industries.. things they'd be involved with, like in NY.. I don't know.. diamond industry or something more upper class.. maybe laweyers.. I don't know. Those types of Jews you can get the big nose, right. Mabye somehow back in those days they'd have some kind of beef with whoever types in the statues and it didn't have a type of nose like theirs.. and somebody would bust them off.
Then you get black people who have "broader" type noses.. where it's wider. Not so much like the Jews where it's this more protruding.. let me get the deal here.. lol. Yeah.. looking this up, in google images, I go.. what is this stereotype of jews with big noses. Then you see this stereotypical cartoon where they kind of have arab noses a bit where it goes out.. then this bump or angle down.
Really fucked up the delivery by not saying who nose what and who nose why.
Why?
Having your nose cut off was a fate worse than death for women.
Like you said, not limited to Egypt. Statues of the Virgin Mary are often targeted, as well.
YHWH wants all the temples and idolatrous symbols in the world destroyed.
Really, eh.. haven't heard of any statues of the virgin Mary where the noses were taken off. Usually it's this really old stuff where they go.. oh that's the weak part of the statue and it'll fall off easier. Or if it falls forward.
https://wjla.com/news/local/our-lady-of-fatima-statue-vandalized-outside-basilica-national-shrine-immaculate-conception-major-catholic-americans
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/st-andrew-avellino-virgin-mary-statue-vandalized/
https://www.facebook.com/7NewsDC/videos/our-lady-of-fatima-statue-vandalized/930450254277330/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_4tdm9tdg
https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2021/04/13/ludlow-church-shrine-fire
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/burke/virginia-church-statues-at-catholic-burke/65-4f86a31d-f30a-4a78-a083-da8abc895738
https://www.ktvu.com/news/statues-of-children-beheaded-virgin-mary-vandalized-at-hayward-church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgWVZnWaUiM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-pieta/vatican-marks-anniversary-of-1972-attack-on-michelangelos-pieta-idUSBRE94K0KU20130521
Often times the vandalizes will attack the statue with a hammer. Knocking the head or arms off is most common. Toppling over the statues is common too.
who's doing all that vandalism, right.. and how do they access those.. guess that's why they had to put them in museums.. ya even had the sphinx.. which would require a bit more man-power. lol. Saw this trailer of Napoleon shooting cannons higher up the pyramids and was like.. oh.. but no.. that'd wreck the sphinx face.. this is more like guys going up there and just nailing that.
So that nobody nose anything....
lol, so it probably wasn't a homonym in other languages, so that theory doesn't pass the sniff test.
Was there a culture that believed in chopping off noses as punishments?
Eh, much of this damage happened prior to the fall of Rome. And while religious zealotry can be in part to blame, the overarching reason for the damage is much simpler and more universal: when you damage the image of a person or diety, you damage that person or diety.