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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mystery Solver: [QB] The familiar term "Asiatic" has been referenced quite a bit here, but imo, it is almost akin to how "Nubian" has been in *contemporary times* indiscrimately applied to people beyond Egypts southern border to at least the 6th cataract, when no such term even exists in the times under study. In several instances "Aamu" has been equated with "Asiatics" in translations, again almost akin to the way "Nehesu", perhaps "Medjay", and other such terms have casually been translated into either "Nubians", or even "Negroes" in some cases. Surely "Aamu" doesn't mean "Asiatic". I can understand the drive behind the association between "Aamu" and "Asiatics" to the extent that the said peoples generally originated from what is [i]today[/i] *geopolitically* referred to as being part of "SW Asia", but what does "Asiatic" mean? Perhaps 'like Asian, but not quite'? Did AE deal with single ethnic and/or political group of people called "Asiatic"? We know that several wall murals depict certain consistent hair and facial conventions accompanied by the term "Aamu". While "Aamu" itself may have been something of a appellative [ethnic term] and hence, didn't specifically refer to any known political entity, the said various murals did depict certain consistencies in the characters so-described. Did the "Aamu" come from a single geographical locale, perhaps even polity, where people sported similar hairstyles and facial characteristics, or did they come from different polities where people sported similar hairstyles and facial characteristics? Did Kemetians apply "name" distinctions amongst the "Aamu" at any time? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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