“This sculptor knows about contemporary styles in Mediterranean and Anatolian sculpture, the interest in hands and the structure of the face and so forth, and yet [the statue is] wearing clothes from 100 years earlier,” Cahill said. “I think they’re very clearly looking back to their own past.”

There was no pfp’s back then so ancient chuds had to make the literal statues

While the climate doesn’t match, I can not help but recall this poem :

https://internetpoem.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/ozymandias-poem/