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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [QB] [QUOTE]Doug, if you look at the color used to depict women you'll often find it's a paler yellow than the more golden hue of the goddesses like Maat. Generally speaking, Egyptians women have always tended to be a shade lighter than men, and it's very common to find brothers and sisters where this is very evident. I believe I read that there is a genetic reason behind it (which is not necessarily that women simply stay out of the sun). Many Egyptian women were painted brown in the NK because they were usually depictions of southern women (where the capital was at the time), who shared the same rich brown color as their male counterparts. Here is a tomb scene from NK artwork that shows women in both colors:[/QUOTE]I am inclined to agree with scholars likr Gay Robbins that contend the yellowish colors of females was not literal but symbolic. The whole concept that women stayed indoors;while men worked outside is an idealogy that Western Egyptologist have picked up from the Victorian era. Most of the everyday existence of the females took them outdoors where chores were preformed upon the open roof. The yellowish color might be associated also with sex differences and old age. In modern Upper Egypt women are confined to their houses because of Islamic influences. In antiquity women were also present working with their husbands in the field and no restriction. I am not certain if fellaha women in the Delta work alongside their husbands in the field. Most accounts I have gleaned they are allowed unlike in Sa3eed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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