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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb]See my reply below: [QUOTE] Originally posted by HabariTess: I disagree with that observation. Out of all the hair styles/textures out there, they resemble a short fro the most. I'm an artist and I notice the Egyptians drew very simplified versions of people, hair included. If I were to create a simplified black character with a short afro,what the Egyptians depicted would be how the character would have look. You say that Hesire is the only one that look like he has an afro. Hesire hair is actually drawn with the same way as the picture you posted that you said did not look like an afro.[/QUOTE]Hey Tess. yes, I agree, the difference is slight. What I'm basing it on is the spherical shape of his hair. Its round. If you look at some of the other examples, their hair extends downward towards the bottom and the hair on top of their head is short. That is inconsistent with Afros. Another thing that makes it inconsistent with Afros, and more consistent with a bob hairstyle, is the fact that this hairstyle always has the same height on the top of their head, while their hair in their neck varies; it can be long, short, etc. Compare: [IMG]http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2791/hairstyles.png[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes you can tell that the hairs of the men above are braided if not braided wigs due to the 'fringes' you see sticking out. As for the "bobbed" look when it comes to braids, are you aware that this is known in Egyptology as a 'Nubian style'. Interestingly enough these Nubian style braids/wigs first became popular during the New Kingdom when it was endorsed by the 18th dynasty. More examples of Nubian style wigs/braids: [/QUOTE]The picture of the three men was just an example. Its irrelevant that the lines on the edges may indicate that they were wearing wigs or headdresses, because we know Egyptian wigs and headdresses often imitated or looked like real hairstyles (nemes, khat headdress, cap crown, fake beard). You can easily see the same hairstyles of the three men in natural form on the various reproductions of the so called [URL=http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8011/remetwaamwneheswtemehwkvf1.jpg]table of nations[/URL] and various 18th dynasty nobles (e.g., [URL=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hL4UsejIVKQ/S9084rkSMGI/AAAAAAAAAig/K7gh83jihFw/s1600/Sennefer+and+Meryt+tombs+nobles+luxor+egypt.jpg]Sennefer[/URL], [URL=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kno69TfiL1I/TmKw97FsixI/AAAAAAAAAAY/mf7axI4jjPU/s1600/Tomb+of+Nakht+5.jpg]Nakht[/URL], [URL=http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/bart/abimages/ahmose.jpg]Ahmose[/URL], [URL=http://www.cosmovisions.com/images/Beni-Hassan-Peinture.jpg]Khnumhotep[/URL]). My point is that the images that were posted weren't afros, and that they would have looked similar to what the khat headdress looks like. This is a more appropriate comparison than the bob hairstyle, which I had just mentioned for the lack of a better term. The most prominent difference between the khat headdress and the hairstyle in question is probably that the former usually isn't depicted as covering the ears of the subject, while the latter does. Note that the khat hairdress also comes in '[URL=http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120216-Wig_with_diadem.jpg]braided[/URL]' form. [IMG]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3WCF2Ke7X2wcLrI-u15gwgXONnlRkBlLg3jYue--HenmgmClz[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6661675873_9112903ab1_z.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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