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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ True, the Delta has had influxes of foreigners especially from the time of the Hyksos, but both archaeology and historical documents show that foreigners have always been in the minority until the Islamic Era when, from the Ummayad Caliphate to the Ottoman, there were multiple periods of mass immigration. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ibis: [qb] First and foremost I really appreciate you finding these examples, but looking at them closely authenticity of some of them looks questionable. The first two men have moustaches, when the customs back them would’ve demanded them to remain clean shaven. The 3rd image features men believed to be Dagi’s sons, if we assume this to be true, since Dagi was buried in Thebes wouldn’t that make those men Thebean? The last one seems to be the worst offender, Rahotep lacks a moustache in his other depictions and it seems to stick out like a sore thumb from the other AE statues from that same time period. I wouldn’t consider it to be an authentic depiction. [/qb][/QUOTE]You are probably correct about the 3rd photo which I simply copied from a google search on Old Kingdom murals but I'll correct it with something more accurate. As far as the authenticity of the other portraits, the depiction of mustaches is not unusual especially in Old Kingdom portraits. What makes Rahotep's statue suspect is the simple fact that hieroglyphs are found in the back of his seat and that of his wife which goes against artistic convention. Other than that, the statues themselves are typical of the time. It was during the Old Kingdom that Egyptologists notice an expansion of Delta peoples into middle and upper Egypt as noted by Batrawi. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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