Zahi will be happy.

[Forum Monk]

From my point of view, either the artisan which created the image was not very good at his craft, or this woman is not egyptian. I base this on browsing images of other egyptian statuary (very few this old) and she does not appear to have typical egyptian features. The nose and bone structure of the face are not typical, lips are not typical, a little more well-fed than I usually see. She looks foreign...very modern looking as one observer has already pointed out.

[Beagle]

what about the tombs below the temples
didn't move them did they
quite happy to see that piece of Egypts heritage submerged
never wonder why

Maybe the tombs didn't fit the revisionist agenda? Here's an Egyptian noblewoman from circa 2650bce. Notice anything unusual about her?

Ok Cog, my final answer: The hair style is wrong for Egyptian women of that period. It should be much more close cropped and shorter.

[Cognito]

Beags, the woman is actually Fourth Dynasty approx. 2600bce and demonstrates Armenian features with blue eyes. Not what you would normally expect for Egypt at the time, eh?

[Minimalist]

Perhaps a simple case of artistic license.

Has any woman ever complained about a portrait that was flattering?

[Beagle]

Beags, the woman is actually Fourth Dynasty approx. 2600bce and demonstrates Armenian features with blue eyes. Not what you would normally expect for Egypt at the time, eh?

And I was looking at women during Djosers' time. Forum Monk mentioned that she lacked Egyptian features.

Tomorrow let us know who she is. She might have come from an area farther east, where blue eyes are not uncommon.

[Beagle]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p07s01-alar.html

CAIRO – Zahi Hawass is one part celebrity, one part investigator. Egypt's lead sleuth in the country's hunt to reclaim ancient antiquities has gained a reputation for often strong-arming curators and bullying museum directors. But while he's attracted critics in his hunt for Egypt's mummies and pharaonic masks, his hard-nosed techniques are indeed paying off.
Mr. Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has recovered some 3,500 objects, including the Ramses I mummy from Atlanta's Michael C. Carlos Museum and an ancient sarcophagus from the chairperson of Chicago's electric utility, Exelon.

Go get 'em ZH!

[Digit]

Hopefully things have improved, but some years ago the BBC ran a programme about the Cairo museum and the conditions there, they weren't good! The took us into see conservators at work and showed how one conservator did more damage in 45 minutes than several thousand years of history.
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