Layers of civilizations.

[sbelyaev]

This image was taken in Luxor several years ago. Today I discovered that one of the characters looks very strange. Am I imagining it or that person have very unusual facial features/proportions?

Full size
http://peakflow.smugmug.com/Other/valley-of-the-kings-artifact/i-HqNFBD2/0/XL/civilizations-XL.jpg

human
http://peakflow.smugmug.com/Other/valley-of-the-kings-artifact/i-B5tF35G/0/X3/civilizationsh-X3.jpg

that
http://peakflow.smugmug.com/Other/valley-of-the-kings-artifact/i-NrcT2bj/0/X3/civilizationsa-X3.jpg

 

[DtheG]

High relief, the nose has been chipped/weathered away. Headress suggests possibly a bull mask?

 

[sbelyaev]

Very big almond shaped eyes (they are almost as big as the ears). The ears placed very high relatively to the eyes. Nose is chipped off, but there is no bridge between the forehead and the nose. The lower portion of the face is relatively small (comparing it with the size of the ears and the eyes). Mask - may be. On the other hand , there is an absolutely correctly executed image of a woman.

 

[gavinlg]

 

[konicaman]

Horned deity, bull mask - with 4 horns? I don't think so, more likely a sun disk with rays. Also the "clip-on" beard seems to indicate a pharaoh. If the idea of this being a woman, is correct, it might be the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut. She was know to wear the beard to make her look more like a pharaoh.

 

[Sparrow]

I thought Amun-Re ... possibly giving a rice-flail to some pharaoh, and given Ramesses II built most of what's still standing I'd guess him ...

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

LOL


Back to the Future had a few "alien" scenes as well. 😉

 

[sevo]

There obviously is a part of the face missing - whether originally as a slip of the mason, or because the thing has been put together from fragments.

 

[sbelyaev]

I found this image to be interesting because of nonhuman facial features/proportions of this character. It is a god (a cap with a sundisk and horns could be worn by the gods only). Also interesting is that it positioned next to women. Those women have typical human propotions. Therefore it would be reasonable to presume that the atrists made no mistake depicting unusual anatomical features of that being/god.