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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ Great pics, Doug and others! [QUOTE]Originally posted by Yonis: [qb] Were these portraits (Greco-Roman) of the ptolemy rulers or the average Egyptian? They look very similar to modern egyptians, and dynastic egypt didn't end that far behind the ptolemy rule.[/qb][/QUOTE]Neither. The Faiyum portraits represent the children of Greek nobility and other wealthy Greek families who intermarried with native Egyptians. The Ptolemies themselves did NOT mix with natives but on the contrary tried very much to keep their Greek lineages 'pure' from any foreign blood, going so far as committing incest. And of course these portraits were not of "average" Egyptians either, since most Egyptians were neither that wealthy nor mixed with the Greek colonists who were still a small minority. [QUOTE][qb]These portraits either crushes the notion of nordic like greeks, or tropical like Egyptians. But i think it portraits the Greeks going by their clothes and stature. [/qb][/QUOTE][b]LOL[/b] I believe the Greeks' own artwork and portraits (in Greece proper) as well as they themselves crush the silly notion of "nordic" Greeks. Also, Egyptians are indigenous Africans with Egypt itself being in the subtropics. So I don't know how the notion of Egyptians being tropically adapted (black) Africans can ever be crushed. [IMG]http://inicia.es/de/alex_herrero_pardo/KenamonTT93.jpg[/IMG] ^ Two average Egyptian boys. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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