Footnote 2 – In Defense of Hans Goedicke

Alan H. Gardiner, “Davies’s Copy of the Great Speos Artemidos Inscription,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 32, pp. 43–55 (Dec. 1946). Although Gardiner made this restoration, he expressed some reservation about it, as follows “The restoration is, of course, as questionable as must be every restoration that is no mere cliché.” According to Professor Donald Redford, of the University of Toronto, who regards the restoration as an obvious one, the phrase “father of fathers” is “in a sense, a cliché,” which is what Gardiner may have meant.