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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ Because dumb b|tch, I've explained it all to you before but you obviously conveniently "forgot". So let me refresh your memory! "..Male and female skin colors were probably not uniform among the entire population of Egypt, with pigmentation being darker in the south [closer to sub-saharan Africans] and lighter in the north [closer to Mediterranean Near Easterners] 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..."-- Egyptologist, Gay Robins[/b] ^^lol.. from an old citation: [i] "In the majority of cases, the woman's skin is coloured a light yellowish-brown, while the man's is painted a much darker reddish-brown (figs. 36, 37). This could be an artistic device to symbolise what we have seen from other evidene: the tendency for women to be occupied indoors and men o of doors... The use of two contrasting colours in relation to gender is obviously a convention, and whole it may in part be based on reality, the situaton with regards to skin colour in life is likely to have been far more complex." [/i] --Gay Robbins 1998. Women in Egypt. p 180-181 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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