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[QUOTE]Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: [QB] This quote is really odd considering that in the first place, no united entity called Nubia was ever used by the Egyptians/Kushites in 3,000+ years of dynastic history. I do find it funny that people keep debating this topic when there's literally so called black Egyptians in Upper Egypt still alive today. [IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/1968317445_f2dffd0a7f_z.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hhBESxKQsSU/TskkDoS_tsI/AAAAAAAAApE/HiHiycmixT8/s1600/ramsesiii.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/KING10_2010/2797643562_2880df3abc.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://heritage-key.com/files/PradPatel/images/seti-i/seti-i.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4582243129_2e8e061be5_z.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Antalas: [qb]lol I just checked your link and this is what they say : [QUOTE] [b]S. B. Pomeroy (Women in Hellenistic Egypt, 55) unreservedly describes her as an Ethiopian. While possible, A. Cameron, GRBS 31 (1990) 287, noting that Ptolemy VIII characterises her as a "native", that Greeks considered the Egyptians "black", and that Didyme is a very common Egyptian name, concludes, I think correctly, that "we have every right to expect an Egyptian".[/b] [b]F. M. Snowden Jr, GRBS 32 (1991) 239, argues against Cameron that, even though people of Nubian ancestry with black skin were well integrated into Egyptian society, Graeco-Roman practice was to reserve deep black for Ethiopian (Nubian/Meroitic) origin. He speculates that Didyme may have been captured by Ptolemy II in his Meroitic expedition of c. 275, and that she may even, like Verdi's Aida, have been the daughter of an Ethiopian king[/b] [/QUOTE]hahah I knew something was wrong...always the same thing with afrocentrists. Nice try though. [/qb][/QUOTE]Immediately afterward, said source says: [QUOTE]As much as I would love to argue for a dynastic link between the Ptolemies and the kings of Meroe, I don't find Snowden's reasoning very coherent -- if Nubians were well-integrated into Egyptian society why could she not have been an Egyptian of Nubian ancestry? But it is interesting to note that Verdi's libretto was based on a story idea proposed by the French Egyptologist Maspero, who was certainly aware of Didyme's existence.[/QUOTE]Mind you, there's nothing in the ancient quote itself that indicates she had to be of "Nubian" ancestry. That is just an assumption certain modern scholars have made based on their preconceptions of how AE and "Nubian" peoples looked like. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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