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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] And, in case there was any question where I am going, compare this: [IMG]http://touregypt.net/Featurestories/vase3.jpg[/IMG] From: http://touregypt.net/Featurestories/picture11272002.htm with this: [IMG]http://image.bayimg.com/hagnoaabg.jpg[/IMG] And tell me what you see. One is 1700 years older than the other, at least. More on this vase: [QUOTE] The meaning of the patterns on the vessels is debatable. Most Egyptologists now agree that they portray a boat bearing a standard or banner. It used to be said that such representations are not boats but watered land with a chief's residence, or a temple platform on stilts. The standards on poles are usually accepted as divine emblems or signs of clans or nomes. Some of the signs on other pots are almost identical with those of gods in historic times. The scattered zzzz signs have been variously interpreted as numbers, libation water, birds or notations of weight and the blocked triangles as hills. The motifs were not only common on pottery of this period but also occur in the earliest known example of Egyptian wall painting, a painted tomb at Hierakonpolis. This pot is made of marl clay. Marl clay was found on the desert edge and under the cultivation near the desert was used. Pottery of this date is shaped by coiling and smoothing (You can see the coiling on the inside of the vessel.) The decoration was applied before firing. Brushes were made from reeds and the paint from oxides of iron. [b]The fact that these vessels do not have a flat base shows that they were either put in pot holders, suspended by a cord or placed in the sand to stay upright. [/b] The lug type handles might suggest that they were suspended when in use. The lugs might alternatively have been used to tie on a cloth lid. Unfortunately we do not know what was in them. Since they are quite small they have contained an expensive commodity. [/QUOTE]From: http://www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/infosheet/W5308.htm Now compare these images from 3500 B.C.: http://xoomer.alice.it/francescoraf/hesyra/Gebelein-linen.htm http://xoomer.alice.it/francescoraf/hesyra/Hierakonpolis-tomb100.htm with these from 1700 B.C.: [IMG]http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9687/therashipfrescoshipwrecfi5.jpg[/IMG] And what do you see? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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