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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Yom: [qb] Those (the megaliths) are from Aksum as well, from the Gudit stelae field where middle class Aksumites erected stelae. I compared Nabta Playa rather than the obelisks due to difference in meaning. Obelisks were meant as monuments just of greatness, declaring the ruler's decrees and his/her conquests, more comparable to Aksumite square slabs of inscriptions detailing conquests. The stelae (note that an obelisk has to be square), however, although the larger ones probably represented more powerful/important personages like in Aksum, were meant as grave markers like in Aksum. [i]Each group of Nabta Playa stelae most likely symbolized the souls of the deceased from an individual herdsman clan, with the smaller clusters representing specific extended families, just like at the Gebel Ramlah cemeteries.[/i] http://www.pan.pl/english/images/stories/pliki/publikacje/academia/2005/07/20-24%20kobusiewicz.pdf [/qb][/QUOTE]I understand now. Interesting. [QUOTE][qb]Another connection can be the underground burial chambers given to important people in Aksum and Egypt, in Ethiopia tied to the stelaes erected for them, in Egypt, sometimes tied to pyramids.[/qb][/QUOTE]Do you have anything on the architecture of these underground chambers? [QUOTE][qb]That's the one. One or two others of mine weren't working at the time as well.[/qb][/QUOTE]I guess you're going to have to copy the url tag and post it to the web address bar. You can see the picture then. [QUOTE][qb]Post them if you have them, then.[/qb][/QUOTE]I don't have those pictures. I have only seen them in books, but hopefully I can scan them one day and post them. [QUOTE][qb]Again, from this source: http://www.pan.pl/english/images/stories/pliki/publikacje/academia/2005/07/20-24%20kobusiewicz.pdf I noticed another connection, the use of bracelets as popular adornment, although this is a rather common trait among humans: 17th c. description again (women): [i]All this class of women wear around their necks, where others would wear chains of gold, besides the chokers normally worn by all, strings of glass beads or finely twisted black string knots that look like beads. On their arms they wear bracelets of ivory, glass, brass, copper or other similar materials according to the possibilities of each, and on their fingers rings of the same type. However, some, instead of the chokers I mentioned, make and wear necklaces of small white seashells [cowrie shells - Yom], strung through the middle of the shell, which hang down in various strands from the neck.[/i] Men: [i]Gold bracelets are worn on their arms on top of the shirt sleeves. They are usually given to them by the king when he is pleased to award them on some occasion, which is his way of giving them praise.14[/i] ... [i]The common people wear ivory bracelets instead of gold, or ones of brass, copper or even of beaten steel[/i] Now, let's turn to earlier material: Quotation about King of Aksum from Byzantine sources: [i]He wore a gold and linen head-dress, with fluttering golden streamers. His collar, armlets, and [b]many bracelets and rings were of gold[/b]. The king's kilt was of gold on linen; his chest was covered with straps embroidered with pearls. He held a gilded shield and lances, while around him musicians played flutes and his nobles formed an armed guard.[/i] Unfortunately I can't find any images ATM or quotations for the common people, but from what the head of the Aksum Museum told me, bronze and ivory bracelets were given to symbolize marriage (i.e. husband and wife would wear a matching pair), and I've read that they've been found in early settlements in the North and along the Eritreo-Sudanese borderland. Sorry for the lack of info/pictures. Here's a BBC article that notes the presence in the 8th c. BC of bracelets at a site near modern Asmara: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2000297.stm [/qb][/QUOTE]Very interesting. What about the collars? Have you seen anything in Ethiopia or in other Horn countries that are similar to Egyptian collars like the ones below? [b]usekh[/b] [IMG]http://sevencolors.org/images/photo/broad_collar.jpg[/IMG] [b]wesekh[/b] [IMG]http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/images/khnumetnecklace.jpg[/IMG] [b]shebyu[/b] [IMG]http://www.valleyofthekings.org/vofk/content/archive/artp/diary98/images/dd203.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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