Post by olehint on May 26, 2010 3:37:15 GMT -5
I was looking at this picture from Tomb of Ramsses III. It's called "The Mural of Races" and somebody told me you were the experts.
But I'm wondering
If this is all the races how is it possible that two races look exactly the same?
This looks like a picture of 3 races.
I've seen other Egyptian figures dressed in many more than three different ways.
There are other paintings from this tomb where many people of the same race have different clothing. But their skin tone and features are the same.
If this is a mural about race and not what clothing someone of the same race is wearing why are there two figures of the same race? And they even have the same clothing?
There are three races in this painting. The first and third look the same.
Is this really the races? Why is one race repeated twice?
Like if you have a black person from America and another black person from Brazil.
Why would you show both of them in a picture of people of different races? They both look exactly the same.
You only need one person to show each The fact that one was from America and one was from Brazil is irrelevant. You only need one of the brothers to represent the black race.
I saw some labels about the figure saying, the order was Kemou, the next Semite, the next, foreign Black, the next Asian.
Black is Black the figures look exactly the same. Egypt is a nationality not a race. And what does "foreign" have to do with it? The Semite and Asian are foreign too, that's irrelevant. The picture was not supposed to be about foreigners it was supposed to be a about race. If it's going to be about race, then you just have three races there, point blank.
Somebody said that the Kems thought they were better than other countries that might have black people. But that would only be relevant to a picture that showed
a picture of foreigners. You might have two Asians with the exact same skin and features but different clothes, just as an example not from Egypt, a Japanese and a Korean. But if you are going to paint their figure the exact same way just with different clothes to show one is Japanese and one is Korean then they belong in a picture called "people of different nations" not a race picture. Race is a much smaller category. So if you were pro Japanese, that Japanese are superior than Koreans you might show the Korean person and call him a foreigner in a painting about foreigners but you wouldn't show him with the same clothes he would have to be different in some way like clothing other wise some one is going to say why you put a Japanese person in the foreigner section? People wouldn't be able to tell who is who. Or you have two white people one from France and one from Germany, they both white but in a painting they are going to be made differnt in some way like clothing or hair to show nationality. But this is not a painting showing like 6 or seven foreigner types, some of the same race in groups of two or more. This is a painting supposed to be about each race alone.
That's why you see just one Asian and one Semite even though there are more types of them from different countries with different clothes. They didn't show two Asian people and say here's two types of Asian.
And if you put in a painting a Japanese person and a Korean and you made their features and skin the same exact way and on top of that they had the exact same clothes then that's even more reason that there shouldn't be two of the same figure in a painting called "the Mural of the Races" It can't be right. Maybe the two black figures in the painting are both Egyptian, repeats for some reason.
There are only 3 races in the picture but for some reason four people. It don't add up.
People of different races look different but two of the people in this mural look exactly the same.
