William Stevenson Smith (revised edition by William Kelly Simpson)
"The craftsman who cut the Karnak blocks were experimenting with sunk relief much as the men in the Theban tomb of Parennefer had tried both raised and relief cut in a thick plaster coating and sunk relief in the poor rock surface...This prevalent use of sunk relief, where all figures were set back from the surface of the wall, was cheaper in labour than the Old Kingdom method"
Thus more experimentation confirming that the style was VERY different to those past and future.
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