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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ Because dumb b|tch, [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=005447]I've explained it all to you before[/URL] but you obviously conveniently "forgot". So let me refresh your memory! "[i]..Male and female skin colors were probably not uniform among the entire population of Egypt, [b]with pigmentation being darker in the south[/b] [closer to sub-saharan Africans] [b]and lighter in the north[/b] [closer to Mediterranean Near Easterners] [b]A woman from the south would probably have had darker skin than a man from the North. Thus, the colorations used for skin tones in the art must have been schematic [or symbolic] rather than realistic[/b]...[/i]"-- Egyptologist, Gay Robins Therefore the yellow skin convention can NOT be based on reality! And as I've just proven this thread is nothing more than a repetition of another thread you created before which is no doubt a repetition of another one! [b]GTFOH![/b] twit! :o [/qb][/QUOTE]This is not proof of anything, just speculation of an author. It is also a non-sequitor. Gay Robbins says that skin color was not uniform in ancient Egypt and that skin tones were lighter in the North than in the South. (so much for your "paint faded" applied to any situation) Males and females are only sometimes of different color in the art and there are plenty of instances where they are the same. So in the instances in the art where a female is shown lighter than a male a more common sense explanation is that the female from a Northern Egyptina background while the male is from Southern Egyptian background. That's the more logical explanation. And not to be confused with a different situation below where a yellow skin color really is symbolic: [IMG]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/files/2009/05/nefertari-and-isis.jpg[/IMG] ^^^^^ Here we have Nefertari and Isis. Nefertari a real person is pictured much darker than Isis. Isis is painted an unatural yellow color. It's not like a real person who might have a tan yellow color. This color is too yellow. It's symbolic for golden skin of some Gods. Nefertari is not yellow here so you can't say yellow is sybmbolic for females. Some people get this confused with the below situation a portrait of two real people, Rahotep and Nofret: [IMG]http://www.gks.uk.com/images/ancient-egypt-flesh.jpg[/IMG] The simple explantion is contained in the first part of Gay Robbins remark: [i] Male and female skin colors were probably not uniform among the entire population of Egypt, [b]with pigmentation being darker in the south[/b] [closer to sub-saharan Africans] [b]and lighter in the north[/b] [closer to Mediterranean Near Easterners] [/b][ Gay Robbins[/i] there is nothing unusual about two anceint Egyptians from different regions in Egypt getting marrried. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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