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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-26-191.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-26-191.png[/IMG][/URL] http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/ptolemyv.htm ^^^ and here is Ptolemy V again depicted on a coin Suppose this is just an anomaly or exception of some sort. Maybe Ptolemy's skin was that dark. But can we tell by looking at this? Is the literally brown skin tone here dark enough to be black? Yeah, says who? According to what method? But what if a scientist bypassed this late period issue entirely and said something you would probably like>> " Egyptian art strongly suggests that the Pharaohs of the Early and Middle and Intermediate periods were brown skinned" That would be reasonable. But would you then be satisfied? You can take certain scientific instruments that analyze color frequencies and determine that a color is brown. However if you asked the scientist "were the Ancient Egyptians prior to the late periods black?" The scientists could say, " apart from some funerary depictions of Pharaohs personifying Osiris, depicted a black in color in what is apparently symbolic and while Kushites are sometimes depicted as literally black skinned, Egyptians are almost depicted brown not black" And this would be true And if you were to say "when I say black I don't mean literally black I mean a range of dark brown color" The scientist could say "Brown is the actual literal skin color on the art. I can't answer a question about an undefined range of browns you prefer to call black rather than brown, I can't answer a question with no way of determining which shades of brown are to be called black and which shades of brown are too light to be called "black". "Black" is a social construct, not an anthropological term. It has no standard method to define it. It has a wide latitude of interpretation even as a social construct. Therefore I cannot answer your question." And he or she would be correct [/qb][/QUOTE][IMG]http://realhistoryww.com./world_history/ancient/greek_period_images/Coin_of_Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes_.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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