To imagine a thing and then do it beautifully, expertly, perfectly, is surely human evidence of divinity.
These thoughts occur to me as I read of "Wedjahorresnet," a high official to the Persian conqueror , Cambyses, an Egyptian by birth, from the city of Sais, who lived in the 26th Dynasty, 550 -years BC.
WRITINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT translated by Toby Wilkinson (2016) reproduces inscriptions from "the Vatican Museum is a headless naophorous statue of green basalt, of a type common in the Late Period of pharaonic history ( the first millennium BC). The statue was dedicated by a high official named Wedjahhorresnet, whose tumultuous career spanned the Persian invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt in the early years of the fifth century BC. Reflecting the hybrid culture of the period, the statue shows Wedjahhoresnet wearing a long, flowing, Persian style robe, which together with the sides of the naos, conveniently serves as the canvas for a lengthy autobiographical text."
