April 24, 2003

Egyptian Heads from the 4th Dynasty

Reserve heads in limestone from the Fourth Dynasty, probably during the reign of Khufu, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Notice the large eyes, prominence of the smooth oval face compared to the low forehead, fine straight nose, full non-everted lips. Only in the slightly bulging parietals does this head deviate from the Mediterranean type, although in profile view (not shown) it is apparent that it is dolichomorphic.

These two faces are only a few of the countless examples of the racial type of the Ancient Egyptians.

Posted by Dienekes at April 24, 2003 09:47 PM | PermaLink
Comments

Is there any evidence regarding the hair type these egeptians might have had?

Posted by: Fernando Salas at April 25, 2003 09:01 AM

Do you know whether anybody has used dental morphology to explore whether their teeth were more similar to the Mediterranian or the Subsaharan African dental types?

Posted by: Wundermensch at April 25, 2003 12:42 PM

IF ever you decide to speak the truth about pure Africans in Ancient Egypt, you might be interested in images of them there. Here is one.
http://www.mfa.org/handbook/portrait.asp?id=42&s=4

Pure or not, Ancient Egypt was a mixed place with plenty of mixed people thanks to Middle Easterners overtaking the aboriginal population. It is silly to assume that Negroids either knew nothing about or had nothing to do with any nation right next door to their own.

Posted by: LK at August 31, 2003 02:31 AM

Dienekes,you have a wonderful site that exposes many flase doctrine that has been imposed. However,your views on the Egyptians are just as unfounded as the views of Arthur Kemp on Ancient Greece,because the reserve heads you display are people from Lower Egypt. Being that Egyptians were diverse in their hair texture,color,and physical morphology,you might want to be true and shopw depictions from all over Egypt.


Here is a picture of another reserve head that was once believed by George Resiner to be a representation of a Nubian wife of an Egyptian. Academics have found that this is not the case and represents an Egypt,so I recommend you add this head to the others.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/new_pyramid/PYRAMIDS/HTML/el_pyramid_head2.htm

Posted by: Asmar Mahalek Rouhi at September 24, 2003 09:56 AM

I am starting work on reserve heads do you have any starting references, articles or books i can start with before starting a dissertation on the subject?

cheers, jude seath

Posted by: jude seath at October 21, 2003 04:39 AM

What about this head Dienekes?

Posted by: Virtuous at October 25, 2003 06:00 AM