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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ibis: [QB] Even if we exclude the moustache, there's still several other details that makes me doubt the authenticity of the Rahotep statue. But to put things back on track, I want to place our attention back to this post, is the information from this site correct? To make final conclusions. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ibis: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ibis: [qb] I suppose to sum things up does anyone have any depictions of lower Egyptians in the dynastic period that supports/rejects the Arrian quote? It would help my study a lot. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't believe that the artistic canon of the ancient Nile had a different way of depicting people from the Upper or Lower parts of the Nation. However, that doesn't mean that there wasn't variation in skin tone presented in the art, but that doesn't necessarily imply or represent a distinction between those from the North or those from the South of the country. From the Old Kingdom to the late period there are plenty of examples where they portrayed crowds or groups of people in alternating tones, either indicating a mixture of skin tones in general or simply for artistic contrast. You can't simply look at one or two statues and say if someone is from the lower or upper part of the country because we have numerous examples of art for the same person with various tones due to fading and other factors. And for us today, trying to distinguish who is from the South of the country vs the North has to be based on text evidence vs simply looking at statues. [/qb][/QUOTE]I actually just may have found something that distinguishes the Northern And Southern Egyptian during the time of Amenhotep III's rule. It says that Ta-shema (Upper Egyptians) looked like this: [IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52579779476_ef0a73aea2_m.jpg[/IMG] And then Ta-Mehu (Lower Egyptian) [IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52580221290_05362c6bb3_m.jpg[/IMG] This is the source site for those curious https://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/kheru/e_kherouef_04.htm I'm not going to make any final conclusions until I can confirm it's validity. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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