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Female King Hashpsut
Provenance: forthcoming
Source: Corbis Stock Photos
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Queen Ati and King Parhu
Pharoahs from Punt.
1473-1458 BC
Provenance: Funerary Temple of Hatshpsut
Source: Corbis Stock Photos
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| This is an interesting releif.
It is frequently misrepresented for several reasons.
1)Queen Ati is a steatopygus African woman, she does not have a
physical handicap or disease as sometimes mentioned.[1]
2)King Parhu is a type of "pharoah". The Parhu's long
beard frequently called a "Puntite beard" has been associated
with the Egyptian Pharonic institution from as as the Old Kingdom.
Parhu also has a long tail hanging from his belt that reminds us
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Amen hetep III
Provenance: forthcoming
Source: Corbis Stock Photos
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MektAten,
Daughter of Nefertiti and Akenaten
Provenance: Amarna
Source: Corbis Stock Photos
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Unidentified man with Shbyu collar of distinction.
Provenance: ???
Source: Corbis Stock Photos
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Amon
Provenance: ???
Source: Corbis Stock Photos |
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Detail of Userhet's Tomb.
Provenance: Theban Tomb 55
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This painting shows a male barber braiding
another mans hair. Through the discovery of many egyptian mummies
we have learned that the Egyptians did not always shave themselves
bald. This interesting relief depicts a man with frizzled hair having
his locks groomed, re-braided, or twisted. The bowl inbetween the
two men probably contains beeswax or other setting ungent that could
be applied to help set and moisturize the hair.
Other Africans of various skin colors are detailed in this inciteful
painting. |
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Old man, tomb of Intef
Provenance: Theban Tomb 155
Source: Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt,
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..in a fragment from the tomb of Intef, [we
see] a fat elderly man. Age is indicated by facial lines that remind
us of the portrait of Senmut and by a red-brown bald spot
above the shock of hair. Fine red strokes indicate the hair on face
and body ... The old man's skin is a light pink, the colour ordinarily
associated with desert ground ... He may be holding the pole of
a chariot in a craftwork scene, but is represented in the same fashion
as a figure who may be the owner of the tomb. Therefore it is perhaps
an Egyptian who is represented, and not one of the light-skinned
Syrians who appear in the lower register of the tribute scene of
Rekhmira and with the red-skinned Aegeans and Asiatics
in the mixed group of foreigners of the tomb of Menkheperra-seneb. |
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Red Quartzite torso of Nefertiti
c. 1350 BCE
Provenance: Amarna(?)
Source: Egyptian Art, Aldred, C. |
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Here according to Cyril Aldred, an expert on
Egyptian art Nefertiti is shown "according to an Oriental
ideal of voluptuousness, with a small waist, large thighs and buttocks
and a prominent pubic mound, thus stressing the epithets that are
often applied to her in the texts: 'Fair
of face, Mistress of Joy, Endowed with Favours, Great of Love.'
Th[is] torso emphasizes these features to a compelling degree ..
This was an innovation in statuary of the reign which attained a
high degree of technical excellence in suggesting the human form." |
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Mature Nefertiti.
Provenance: forthcoming
Source: Pharoahs of the Sun, Freed, R. |
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The furrowed face and drooping breasts suggest that this
is an image of Nefertiti in her later years. The attenuation
of the upper body and the voluptuousness of the lower body are less
pronounced than they woul d have been earlier in the reign. |
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