The old manuals told the image-maker to meditate first and to see the deity described in its dhyāna verse before touching stone. The verse was the brief. Finished images were brought to life by opening their eyes. Egypt's sculptors knew a parallel rite, the Opening of the Mouth, and one of their words for sculptor meant "one who causes to live." We work in that lineage of attention. Each scene below is remade for several peoples with its sacred attributes kept intact.
Opening the eyes. When a mūrti is finished, netronmīlana, the opening of the eyes, brings it to life. The sculptor cuts the last line of the eye, or the priest touches it with a golden needle during prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā, the "establishing of breath." In Swamimalai the bronze casters still call this rite kaṇ-tiṟappu. (source)
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The full gallery, every scene in every look: https://hathor.soapbox.community/remakes · Shilpa Shastra gallery: https://hathor.soapbox.community/gallery
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
Source: J. M. W. Turner, 1817. Public domain
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Realistic — Punic (Carthaginian) · Nubian · Libyan (Amazigh) · Levantine · Pale
The ferry to Gîza across the Nile
Source: Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0
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Theatre of Sabratha, Libya
Source: Photograph. CC BY-SA 2.0
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Towing on the Nile
Source: Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1875. Public domain
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Vendeur africain à Mogador
Source: Charles Maurand (engraver), 1863 (Le Monde illustré). Public domain
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View of Kom Ombo
Source: David Roberts, 1838. Yale Center for British Art. CC0
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View of Santa Cruz (Barrow, 1806)
Source: Barrow, 1806 (British Library Mechanical Curator). Public domain
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Vue du Port Cothon prise de l'ancienne Citadelle de Byrsa (Carthage)
Source: A. Mayer (draughtsman), lithograph after De Sinety. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Public domain
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Water Carriers on the Nile
Source: John Singer Sargent, 1891. Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain
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Women carrying water by the Nile
Source: Auguste Veillon. Public domain
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Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, Athena between them — Attic black-figure neck amphora
Source: Attributed to the Medea Group — File:Attic_Black-Figure_Neck_Amphora_-_Achilles_and_Ajax_playing_a_board_game_overseen_by_Athena.jpg · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Athena Promachos — Kleophrades Painter, Panathenaic amphora (ABV 404 7)
Source: ArchaiOptix — Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Birth of Athena — Attic black-figure amphora (Louvre F32)
Source: User:Bibi Saint-Pol — Own work · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Neith — modern drawing after the Tomb of Nefertari (Eternal Space)
Source: Eternal Space — Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Orestes at Delphi — Paestan red-figure bell-krater by Python (British Museum 1917.12-10.1)
Source: Python (as painter) — Jastrow (2006) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Priest in a leopard-skin cloak with Osiris on his skirt (Met 26.7.1415)
Source: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Robert Smirke — The Castalian Spring (Yale Center for British Art B1977.14.561)
Source: Robert Smirke — Yale Center for British Art · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Seated statuette of the goddess Neith (LACMA 50.14.1)
Source: Image: 
Gallery: http://collections.lacma.org/node/230292 archive copy at the Wayback Machine · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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The goddess Neith — Tomb of Nefertari QV66, descending corridor (Museo Egizio archive photo C01600)
Source: Archivio fotografico Museo Egizio, Turin - online catalogue · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Treatment scene from the tomb of Ankhmahor, Saqqara (line drawing, Wellcome M0003798)
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Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0003798.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/maq46mkm CC-BY-4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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All 20 scenes in this set, and every other remake, are in the gallery: https://hathor.soapbox.community/remakes. Made on our own servers in Hathor Studio; each scene links to its place in the gallery.