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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] @TP According to Greco-Roman authors, by the time of the Common Era, the people in your pic were more typical of Lower Nubia than Elephantine. Ptolemy said that people who live under (i.e. at the latitude of) the Tropic of Cancer don't have the skin pigmentation of Ethiopians. What is your reaction to that? Elephantine is precisely under the Tropic of Cancer. [/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah, I have seen that before. I am not sure if that translation is correct. Better yet, I doubt it very much, and it could have been exaggerated. I think it has to do with a geo-political statement. I do know that this particular region was a Graeco-Roman outpost, with very little Graeco-Romans actually living there (according to local oral tradition). I have seen the murals etc. these reflect exactly the local people I have shown and described. Considering that I have been there and have seen the excessively large desert landscape, I find it hard to believe what Ptolemy described, so I even doubt he himself actually went there himself. I sounds more like chest-pumping, he-said-she-said stories and make believe. Since one can't enter Elephantine that easily. Elephantine stretches from modern day Southern Egypt to modern day North Sudan, which didn't exist back then as geographical borders. Also another problem arises, before Ptolemy (let's say he actually went there) the region was a colonial Persian outpost, which was part of the Achaemenid Empire. It's a bit like Donald Trumps inauguration, with "alternative facts". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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