Śilpa Śāstra · Remakes of the Ancient World, Set 2: Headcones & perfume, Lotus perfume

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A bronze Naṭarāja from Tamil Nadu and a painted one from Kerala share no single face, yet no one mistakes him. In Śilpa Śāstra the identity of a sacred figure lives in its lakṣaṇa: the gesture, the emblem, the headdress, the measured proportion. We remake ancient scenes the same way. Hathor keeps her horns, sun-disk and menat across every version, and the people who carry them change from Nile to Nubia to the Aegean. Here they are, side by side.

The All-Maker. Two hymns of the Ṛgveda (10.81–82) praise Viśvakarman, "All-Maker," the one with eyes, faces, arms and feet on every side, who forged heaven and earth. Later tradition made him architect of the gods, and artisans across India still worship their tools on his festival. (source)

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Servant girls anointing women guests

Source: Tomb of Nebamun & Ipuky (TT181), Met Museum facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies, CC0

Original: Servant girls anointing women guests — original

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Servant girls at Rekhmire's banquet

Source: Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), Thebes, Public domain

Original: Servant girls at Rekhmire's banquet — original

Realistic — Egyptian · Nubian · Libyan (Amazigh) · Levantine · Pale

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The banquet of Nebamun

Source: Tomb of Nebamun, British Museum (Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The blind harpist

Source: Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Thebes, Public domain

Original: The blind harpist — original

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Three musicians of Nakht

Source: Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Thebes, Public domain

Original: Three musicians of Nakht — original

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Userhat and wife receive offerings

Source: Tomb of Userhat (TT51), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Userhat and wife receive offerings — original

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Women at a banquet (Rekhmire)

Source: Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Women at a banquet (Rekhmire) — original

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Women guests with headcones (Rekhmire)

Source: Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Women guests with headcones (Rekhmire) — original

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Women pressing lily perfume

Source: Relief, Louvre E 11162 (CC0)

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Female offering bearer with lotus

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art 1949.496, Theban relief, CC0

Original: Female offering bearer with lotus — original

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Girl carrying lotus and ducks

Source: Tomb of Menna (TT69), Thebes, Public domain

Original: Girl carrying lotus and ducks — original

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Ipuy and wife receive offerings of unguent and lotus

Source: Tomb of Ipuy (TT217), Met Museum facsimile (restored), CC0

Original: Ipuy and wife receive offerings of unguent and lotus — original

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Kneeling bearers offering unguent and lotus

Source: Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Kneeling bearers offering unguent and lotus — original

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Lily harvest (Louvre E 11377)

Source: Louvre E 11377, Saqqara relief, Late Period, CC BY 4.0

Original: Lily harvest (Louvre E 11377) — original

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Men with lotus bouquets

Source: New Kingdom relief of a funerary procession, CC BY-SA 2.0

Original: Men with lotus bouquets — original

Realistic — Egyptian · Nubian · Libyan (Amazigh) · Levantine · Pale

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Nakht and wife receive offerings

Source: Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Nakht and wife receive offerings — original

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Offering bearers of Petosiris

Source: Tomb of Petosiris, Tuna el-Gebel (glass slide), Public domain

Original: Offering bearers of Petosiris — original

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Offering bearers with lotus

Source: Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Offering bearers with lotus — original

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Owner receiving lily perfume (Louvre E 11377)

Source: Louvre E 11377, Saqqara relief, Late Period, Public domain

Original: Owner receiving lily perfume (Louvre E 11377) — original

Realistic — Egyptian · Nubian · Libyan (Amazigh) · Levantine · Pale

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Pressing lilies in a sack (Louvre E 11377)

Source: Louvre E 11377, Saqqara relief, Late Period, Public domain

Original: Pressing lilies in a sack (Louvre E 11377) — original

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All 20 scenes in this set, and every other remake, are in the gallery: https://hathor.soapbox.community/remakes. Made on our own servers in Hathor Studio; each scene links to its place in the gallery.

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