Black Genesis (22 page)

Plate 8. Robert Bauval with herder near Assiut

Plate 9. Nubian boatman at Aswan. Behind the boatman can be seen the Island of Bigeh, near Philae, and the remains of the entrance of a doorway built by Augustus that led up a stairway to a temple, the pronaos, built by Ptolemy XII.

Plate 10. Elder at Siwa Oasis

Plate 11. Elder at Siwa Oasis

Plate 12. Prehistoric carving of cattle ca. 8000–6000 BCE, Gilf Kebir

Plate 13. Prehistoric carving of cattle ca. 8000–6000 BCE, Karkur Talh, Uwainat. Note how the cow is ornate with body harness or perhaps a blanket.

Plate 14. Cattle, Borda Cave, northern Uwainat, ca. 6000–4000 BCE. Note spotted cow.

Plate 15. Models of cows, Eleventh Dynasty, ca. 2000 BCE. Courtesy of the Cairo Museum.

Plate 16. Cow goddess Mehet-Weret (“Great Flood”) representing the yearly inundation of the Nile, ca. 1500 BCE. This goddess is sometimes linked to Isis.

Plate 17. The cow godess Hathor, New Kindom, ca. 1500 BCE. Note the stars on her body. Hathor's cult is attested from earliest times.

Plate 18. The goddess Isis with cow horns, suckling the child Horus

Plate 19. The Step Pyramid at Saqqara

Plate 20. The head of the Sphinx. Note “Negroid” features.

Plate 21. The Nilometer on Elephantine Island at Aswan