scorpion’s tail with the head of a woman
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Egpytian Gods: Serket - 0 views
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Ancient Egyptian Gods for Kids - 0 views
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God of Mummification (embalming and the dead). His role was as the "guardian to necropolis" Priests often wore a mask of Anubis during mummification ceremonies.
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History of Makeup in Egypt - 0 views
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Malachite, a copper ore, which provided the green eye makeup color so greatly favored at the time Kohl, used to draw thick, distinctive black lines, creating an almond shape to the eyes Red ocher, which was used as rouge or lip color Henna, which was widely used to stain the fingertips and toes
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Marissa-For over three thousand years, ancient Egyptian sculptors created statues of deities, kings and elite officials and their families. These were set up mainly in temples or tombs and played a vital role in temple and funerary ritual, being places where non-physical entities deities, the royal ka-spirit and the ka-spirits of the dead could manifest themselves in this world. The book begins by examining the materials and techniques employed by sculptors and the various statue types and poses that occur. Next it explores the function of statues and the different contexts for which they were made. This is followed by a chapter explaining the notion of the ideal image: statues were not intended to be exact likenesses but rather ideal images reflecting the identity, role and status of the subject. The individual identity of a statue was usually provided by inscriptions, and the various texts found on statues are discussed together with the different types of relief decoration that occur on statue surfaces. A final chapter considers what was constant and what changed over time and looks at the influence that Egyptian statues had on the origins of monumental Greek sculpture. Dr Gay Robins studied Egyptology at the University of Durham as an undergraduate and then went to Oxford to undertake research on queens of the Eighteenth Dynasty, obtaining a DPhil in 1981. She has published numerous articles relating to ancient Egyptian art, women and gender issues, and the living stature and physical proportions of the ancient Egyptians.
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Clothing in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Peasants, workers and other people of modest condition often wore nothing, but the shenti (made of flax) was worn by all people. Slaves often worked naked.
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pharaohs would wear leopard skins over their shoulders and added a lion’s tail that would hang from their belt.
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The men wore wrap around skirts known as the Shendyt, which were belted at the waist, sometimes pleated or gathered in the fron
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held up by one or two straps and were worn down to the ankle, while the upper edge could be worn above or below the breasts.
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women had a choice of wearing shawls, capes, or robes. The shawl was a piece of cloth around 4 feet wide by 13 or 14 feet long
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Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum of Art - 0 views
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Egyptian words for “nobility” and “wealth” were both written with the same hieroglyph showing a figure seated on a chair.
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Both men and women wore blue and green eyeshadow and black kohl eyeliner, when they were dressed up fancy
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Clothes were expensive and in the hot Egyptian climate people often wore as little as possible. If we are to believe the depictions, at parties servants and slave girls wore little more than skimpy panties and jewellery [7], though one may assume that the reason for this undress was not a lack of funds. Working women mostly dressed in a short kind of kalasiris. Men doing physical labour wore a loin cloth, wide galabiyeh-like robes or, if they were working in the water, nothing at all. Children usually ran around nude during the summer months, and wore wraps and cloaks in winter when temperatures might fall below 10°C. The gods had to be dressed as well. This was th
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Clothes were expensive and in the hot Egyptian climate people often wore as little as possible. If we are to believe the depictions, at parties servants and slave girls wore little more than skimpy panties and jewellery [7], though one may assume that the reason for this undress was not a lack of funds. Working women mostly dressed in a short kind of kalasiris. Men doing physical labour wore a loin cloth, wide galabiyeh-like robes or, if they were working in the water, nothing at all. Children usually ran around nude during the summer months, and wore wraps and cloaks in winter when temperatures might fall below 10°C. The gods had to be dressed as well
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The clothes were generally made of linen and kept simple: a short loincloth resembling a kilt for men, a dress with straps for women
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Middle Kingdom piece of clothing displays three different types of pleating: one part is pleated with pleats a few centimetres apart, another with very narrow pleats and a third part is chevron-patterned, with horizontal and vertical pleats crossing each other
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the top could reach anywhere from below the breast up to the neck, the bottom hem generally touched the calves or even the ankles.
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The length of the the kilts varied, being short during the the Old Kingdom and reaching the calf in the Middle Kingdom, when it was often supplemented with a sleeveless shirt or a long robe
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Circular capes date back as far as the Old Kingdom. They were generally made of linen and had an opening for the head cut at the centre. They were often dyed, painted or otherwise decorated and covered little more than the shoulders
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The Egyptians went barefoot much of the time, but wore sandals on special occasions [8] or when their feet were likely to get hurt.
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sandals were tied with two thongs and, if they had a pointed tip this was often turned upwards. They were made of leather [17] or rush [12] woven or stitched together, and often had leather soles and straps.
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The kings wore at times very elaborately decorated sandals, and sometimes decorative gloves as well, but generally they were depicted barefoot, as were the gods.
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Sandals made of gold have been found which cannot have been very comfortable to their wearers if they were worn at all. Among Tutankhamen's equipment there were 93 pieces of footwear. There were sandals made of wood with depictions of enemies on their soles, on which the king would tread with every step and another pair which was fastened with buttons.
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Sandals seem to have had an importance which mostly escapes us nowadays, symbolizing prosperity and authority.