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[QUOTE]Originally posted by neo*geo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masreyya: [qb] If you are going to take the color of ancient Egyptian women as symbolic, then you'd have to be equally prepared to do the same with respect to the men. I'm still, however, convinced that the yellow-based color of Egyptian women was an indication of their overall lighter complexion than the men.[/qb][/QUOTE]The problem with both ideas is that the skin color of wall paintings represented different things over different time periods. However, during the New Kingdom, Egyptian art appears to have been more realistic than symbolic. During that period we see more wall paintings where women are depicted in the same skin reddish brown color as men. [IMG]http://www.domainnamesanity.com/webumake/wwwsites/www.dreamteament.com/akhenatenef.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.heissinger-aegypten.de/web-images/nefertari/nefertari-3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.domainnamesanity.com/webumake/wwwsites/www.dreamteament.com/egyptianwomen.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.nubianet.org/about/img/1C3_10.jpg[/IMG] This image is interesting. I think I've read that the jet-black woman in this painting is Queen Kemsit and her name meant "the lady is black." Her servants were more likely Syrio-Palestinian than Egyptian. [QUOTE][qb]Originally posted by Masreyya: This one below looks fairly typical of Egyptian families: [IMG]http://www.caribbeanedu.com/kewl/adventure/images/egyptian_family.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]Contrast that with this scene of an Egyptian family [IMG]http://www.domainnamesanity.com/webumake/wwwsites/www.dreamteament.com/menem.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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