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Head of King Khufu
Colossal head possibly of King Khufu, who became Egypt’s best known pyramid builder, responsible for the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Granite is extremely hard, but the sculptor of this statue was able to give the king’s plump face and small features a softly natural quality, perhaps suggesting the subject’s actual appearance rather than an idealized version. Originally, this fragment surmounted an oversize figure, achieving the same monumental quality as the pyramids being built at this time.
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2613-2494 BC. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. 46.167
On this day, 15 November 1922, between 300 and 1000 people were massacred by the state during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Power company and trolley workers had walked out on strike in protest at worsening economic conditions, and were joined by almost all other workers in the city. Strikers and their families assembled for a peaceful rally on 15 November when, completely unprovoked, the armed forces and police opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds. More info in this short article written in Ecuador in 2014: https://libcom.org/news/ecuador-november-15-class-war-memory-war-équateur-15-novembre-guerre-de-classe-guerre-de-mé https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1264781910373623/?type=3



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