solitaire wrote:

> As you would be aware Martin..., the pharoahs of egypt had a
> proclivity for having their likeness replcated in various art
> forms often on the grandest scale.

I am so aware of it that I am aware of its limited truth: the colossal statuary you have in mind was by and large a later development (with the Sphinx an arguable exception). Hint: Ramses II was of the 19th dynasty, long after Khufu’s time.

Your mistake is the common one of assuming cultural uniformity over the entire 3,000 or so years of pharaonic history.

> Is it not strange that the only supposed likeness of this
> mightiest of pharoah builders is a tiny bauble found at abydos
> with his name supposedly scaratched upon it?

Not really, since (for one thing) it is not the only supposed likeness - and why ‘supposedly’ scratched? His (Horus) name is quite legibly present.

M.