27-06-2016, 09:55 PM
Thoth made note of the quantity and Seshat verified the figures.
Are you saying that her headdress is a papyrus plant? The Larousse Encyclopedia says she wore a star on her head. Saying nothing of any potential separation. But also saying that the star was 'inscribed in a reversed crescent' And that the star and crescent were 'surmounted by two long, strait plumes'. This construction is then a representation of the ideogram for secretary.
And then, you'll love this, it says "Later, due probably to a misunderstanding on the part of the sculptors" her headdress got turned into a pair of long, drooping horns. So it was altered - beyond recognition - before it ever got out of ancient Egypt.
So how does the VMs author get to see the inside of Seti I's tomb? More likely that a modern young man in Rome, some time after the parchment dates, gets a bit of Egyptian influence from seeing the carvings on one of the Egyptian obelisks taken to Rome a millennium prior. And rather than a series of sloppy copies, the carved images themselves may have become somewhat worn and too far up the pole to be seen clearly. Or are you suggesting that the VMs is really the nth iteration in a series of copies that goes back to where?? Seti's tomb?
Are you saying that her headdress is a papyrus plant? The Larousse Encyclopedia says she wore a star on her head. Saying nothing of any potential separation. But also saying that the star was 'inscribed in a reversed crescent' And that the star and crescent were 'surmounted by two long, strait plumes'. This construction is then a representation of the ideogram for secretary.
And then, you'll love this, it says "Later, due probably to a misunderstanding on the part of the sculptors" her headdress got turned into a pair of long, drooping horns. So it was altered - beyond recognition - before it ever got out of ancient Egypt.
So how does the VMs author get to see the inside of Seti I's tomb? More likely that a modern young man in Rome, some time after the parchment dates, gets a bit of Egyptian influence from seeing the carvings on one of the Egyptian obelisks taken to Rome a millennium prior. And rather than a series of sloppy copies, the carved images themselves may have become somewhat worn and too far up the pole to be seen clearly. Or are you suggesting that the VMs is really the nth iteration in a series of copies that goes back to where?? Seti's tomb?