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[QUOTE]Originally posted by neo*geo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masreyya: [qb] [QUOTE]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]Here is yet another example of "explaining away". We would then have to dismiss essentially all ancient Egyptian portrayals of women from the OK to the MK and a sizeable portion of NK art as "Syrio-Palestinian", since all of them look identical to those women. [/qb][/QUOTE]Early during the Middle Kingdom, there begins to be mass migration of Syrio-Palestinian peoples into Egypt. Some were brought in as war captives. With no physical evidence all we can do is guess. However, just as Nubians were often(but not always) depicted with jet black skin color in Egyptian art, Asiatics were often(but not always) depicted with yellowish skin color throughout Egyptian history. Putting historicals facts together to make an educated guess is not "explaining away" your point. One of us may be wrong, neither of us may be right but there is no physical evidence to help end our guessing. To be fair to other possibilities I used the term "more likely" leaving open the fact that I could be wrong. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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