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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elmaestro: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Nobody is denying that the Greeks or other peoples didn't acknowledge nuances in complexion with Africans further south being darker, however where in the texts did it say anything about "deep black"?? This is the mental gymnastics that Punos_Rey speaks of. There are many Greco-Roman texts that describe Egyptians as being simply 'black' so if this Didyme woman is described as the same, then what makes her Kushite or un-Egyptian?? The fact that the Ptolemies mixed with native Egyptians is no surprise as can be seen in the skull of [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=007700;p=1]Cleopatra's sister[/URL].[/QUOTE]I get that much of it, however from most of what I've read going back to the historians themselves the greeks were very definitive in ways which they classified race. If the subject had dark skin, they would be Indian or Aethiopian... If they have the characteristic kinky/wooly hair their probably Aegyptian/Aethiopan. Modern interpretations seem to add this dramatic element of "relativity" to maintain whatever preconceptions we're occupied. However it gets confusing, for the fact that someone could be flat out recorded as being an Aegyptian (by the ancients) for the simple fact that they were black, not tanned but black as coal... Us of today are debating whether the subject is an implant because of the physical descriptions of these people... It's a mess. I don't recall deep black being used by any historian off the top of my head, but apparently the folks such as Snowden believes that the Greeks had a pigment grading system to which they check off who belongs to where by how dark they are... It's garbage reasoning, considering if that is true, it'd be widely inconsistent... As it stands now, there is no reason to believe Didyme was anything but Egyptian as well as likes of Meheripri and the Armanas. And in regards to the Ptolemaic-Egyptian relations, yep I was think about Cleos sister when I was reading about didyme....who these people were is quite evident. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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