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May 13, 2024, 8:17 am UTC    
February 11, 2008 03:53AM
He undermines his own argument here:

"And it could even be that Tut did not have the eye shape himself, if his mother was a woman other than Nefertiti who did not have it or if the trait was passed only from mothers to daughters. In either case, Tut could be shown with it simply as an artistic continuance of the characteristic."

IOW, if it's there, it's either real or artistic license. And if it's not there, it's either not real or artistic license.

So, the only evidence is that it appears on many images of Nefertiti. But the same effect appears on somewhat earlier coffins, ie the Thuya coffin. It might be possible to say that the artistic *convention* of showing the slanted eyes came about either late in Amenhotep III's or early in Akhenaten's reigns, but even then that might be reaching.

Because if they are going to say that the slanted eyes are representative of Nefertiti's actual appearance, then they will also have to say that the extreme heads & bodies of Amarna art are also representative of the sitter's appearance.

Stylistically the KV 63 coffins fit nicely into the end of the 18th D. Anything beyond that is pure conjecture.
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Nefertiti article in Archaeology

Katherine Reece February 08, 2008 02:15PM

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Katherine Reece February 10, 2008 11:39AM

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Katherine Reece February 09, 2008 11:59AM

Egyptians with slanty eyes

Doug February 09, 2008 11:36PM

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Greg Reeder February 09, 2008 11:45PM

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Roxana Cooper February 10, 2008 11:59AM

Full text now online...

Katherine Reece February 10, 2008 11:47AM

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