They are contemporary but Egyptian. Wikipedia says that Egypt was the southern neighbor on Nabataea. He is drawing similarities in the styles of the region and earlier asserted that appearance was more about the time and place you lived than your religion. Since cultures in close contact influence each other, as he showed earlier, he believes that the Egyptian portraits may give us a very good idea of what their neighboring Nabateans looked like, and even the Arab fresco is quite similar looking to the Egyptian portraits.
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Are the two mummy portraits of Nabateans or are they just used as examples? 1:05:40
They are contemporary but Egyptian. Wikipedia says that Egypt was the southern neighbor on Nabataea. He is drawing similarities in the styles of the region and earlier asserted that appearance was more about the time and place you lived than your religion. Since cultures in close contact influence each other, as he showed earlier, he believes that the Egyptian portraits may give us a very good idea of what their neighboring Nabateans looked like, and even the Arab fresco is quite similar looking to the Egyptian portraits.
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