April 16, 2007 08:26PM
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Doug M Wrote:
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The general consensus is that the statues of Tutankhamen were covered with black pitch as a preservative to keep the wooden statues from drying out and cracking. And not as a depiction of his skin color. The fact that they're in pristine condition is proof that the AE's got this one right. In this case those who are trying to find some "symbolic meaning" in the color of these statues are headed in the wrong direction.
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> Case in point, what is the name of the black
> statues of Tutankhamun in Egyptian? Why were they
> black and is that not an example of black as
> symbolic of both the soil and the people? Whether
> Tutankhamun was literally tar black is irrelevant
> to this question and points out HoW blackness had
> multiple levels of meaning and was not exclusively
> an either or proposition.
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> Of course the fact that the soil in Egypt is
> really brown is a whole different story.
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at 04/16/07 03:51PM by
> Doug M.
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