quote:"A carving of Hatshepsut appears above hieroglyphs representing her name (enclosed within an oval). The carving is located at the Karnak temple complex in Egypt."
(^^this caption at kids Britannica is all wrong except about being at Karnak)
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Also here, in another Britannica article on 100 women on the image itself:
middle figure is same, clearly not Hatshepsut (or her hieroglyph) but an arm-bound likely male, Nubian captive same mark by nostril G1/G4/G21 Hieroglyph for Nubian
Same image at Pike school, attributed to Britannica
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I know that for important sources like Britannica to make mistakes is more common than people think but for a huge mistake like this seems crazy! LOL
quote:Originally posted by the lioness,:
notice small hole mark to the right of nostril, slightly lower than the nostril
It's probably a nose ring of some sort that he's wearing.
But as to what the hieroglyphs read--
I believe this transliterates to tjw-pẖr-k-khast. The last word khast is the determinative for means "foreign", but as to what the actual name means is anyone's guess.
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^ Anybody have any ideas on who that Nubian identity is or if I even transliterated it correctly??
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ Anybody have any ideas on who that Nubian identity is or if I even transliterated it correctly??
I tend to assume most New Kingdom representations of "Nubians" depict Kushites or other Sudanese peoples under Kushite hegemony, but I don't remember reading about any group called "tjw-pẖr-k-khast". They might be an insurgent faction rebelling against New Kingdom Egyptian domination of Kush.
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