And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Impressive Propaganda, not to mention sculpture.
A granite sphinx of King Amenemhat III, with the rarer lion’s mane, replacing the usual striped Nemes cloth headdress. 12th dynasty, c1820 BC. Black granite. From a Tanite Temple. Cairo Egyptian Museum.
That's not the one Napoleon blew the snoot off of to irritate negro's into perpetuity.
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