Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> Your points are good, however I would expect an
> Egyptologist who specialized in clothing to be
> aware of them. And they did use the loincloths to
> obtain the hip measurements. I don't recall what
> they used to get the chest measurement. For the
> waist measurement there was a type of clothing
> that was worn wrapped tightly around the torso
> area during rough chariot rides that they used for
> it.


It's called a 'corselet' because it hugs the body (cors in old French).
That would give an accurate reading, provided the reconstruction was
correct. 31 is very small, so much so that I wonder if it might be a
child's. It would probably fit a 10--year-old.


> I was rather afraid of the show being a basket
> case one, because all the commercials were things
> like "using evidence long ignored" but overall it
> was pretty good. I still do find the complete
> ommission of even Smenkhkare's name when the
> identity of the body in KV55 was being discussed
> rather odd. They kept comparing the skull and
> other features saying that this would be typical
> for a father and son to share these features and I
> kept saying or two brothers!

Or cousins, nephew/uncle, grandson, etc.

It's possible that Akhenaten sired Smenkhare, who in turn sired Tutankhamun. I have some
problems with the desire to ignore Smenkhare in favor of a female ruler based on something less than a dozen inscriptions. Considering how much materoal was deliberatly destroyed, it's amazing we have as much as we do.