Anatomy of a Palimpsest: The Not-So-Strange Case of the 'Abydos Helicopter'
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Publisher
KMT / Joshua Aaron Roberson, University of Memphis
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Egyptologist Joshua Roberson reconstructs the feature as a palimpsest created when Ramesses II's inscription was carved over a plaster-filled inscription of Seti I; loss of fill exposes both layers at once.
Qualifies
Specialist Egyptologists reconstruct Seti I and Ramesses II overwritten royal inscriptions; full original sign-by-sign plates were not independently inspected in this ED review.