Śilpa Śāstra · Remakes of the Ancient World, Set 3: Lotus perfume, The Nile

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Classical Indian image-makers used a unit taken from the figure itself: the tāla, one face-length, divided into twelve fingers. Gods, goddesses, humans and spirits each have their own count, so proportion itself says what order of being you are looking at. Egypt had a squared grid and Greece had Polykleitos' canon, each a sibling workshop with its own measure. Our remakes keep each scene's canon and attributes and let the peoples vary. Here is the next batch.

Imitating the divine workshop. The Aitareya Brāhmaṇa (VI.27), as rendered by Coomaraswamy, says every human work of art is made "in imitation of the angelic works of art." Human craft is a copy of a heavenly original. That idea sits at the root of the Indian arts. (source)

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Two offering bearers with lotus

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art 1949.495, Theban relief, CC0

Original: Two offering bearers with lotus — original

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

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

Banquet under a pergola on the Nile

Source: Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, Hellenistic, CC BY-SA 3.0

Original: Banquet under a pergola on the Nile — original

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

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

Boat from Nubia

Source: Tomb of Huy (TT40), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Boat from Nubia — original

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

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

Boats with provisions

Source: Tomb of Neferhotep (TT49), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Boats with provisions — original

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

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

Donkeys and ploughing

Source: Tomb of Djar (TT366), Met Museum facsimile, CC0

Original: Donkeys and ploughing — original

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

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

Fishermen in papyrus skiffs

Source: Mastaba of Mereruka, Saqqara, CC BY-SA 2.0

Original: Fishermen in papyrus skiffs — original

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

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

Grape harvest and bird netting

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

Original: Grape harvest and bird netting — original

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

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

Grape harvest and treading

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

Original: Grape harvest and treading — original

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

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

Herdsman driving cattle across a ford

Source: Mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, CC BY-SA 3.0

Original: Herdsman driving cattle across a ford — original

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

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

Hoeing and sowing by the canal

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

Original: Hoeing and sowing by the canal — original

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

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

Journey to Abydos

Source: Tomb of Pairy (TT139), Met Museum facsimile, Public domain

Original: Journey to Abydos — original

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

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

Man making a fishing net

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

Original: Man making a fishing net — original

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

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

Men on a small craft

Source: Mastaba of Nikauisesi, Saqqara, CC BY-SA 4.0

Original: Men on a small craft — original

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

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

Menna fowling in the marshes

Source: Tomb of Menna (TT69), Met Museum facsimile, Public domain

Original: Menna fowling in the marshes — original

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

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

Menna spearing fish

Source: Tomb of Menna (TT69), Met Museum facsimile, Public domain

Original: Menna spearing fish — original

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

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

Nakht fishing and fowling

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

Original: Nakht fishing and fowling — original

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

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

Nebamun fowling in the marshes

Source: Tomb of Nebamun, British Museum EA 37977, Public domain

Original: Nebamun fowling in the marshes — original

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

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

Net fishing from boats (left)

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

Original: Net fishing from boats (left) — original

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

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

Net fishing from boats (right)

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

Original: Net fishing from boats (right) — original

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

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

Nile Mosaic of Palestrina (lower Nile)

Source: Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, Hellenistic, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina, Public domain

Original: Nile Mosaic of Palestrina (lower Nile) — original

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

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


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