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Stop 124– Family tour – Egyptian Inlay
(Egyptian music) [David Whitehouse]: “Try standing like that
with your legs facing one way and your chest twisted around the other.”
[Kid 1]: It’s kind of uncomfortable standing so stiff like that.
[David]: “But it is - it’s exactly how the ancient Egyptians very often represented
people.
[Kid 2]: (groans) Yeah, it kind of hurts! But that guy looks like he’s out for a walk
in the park.
[David]:” I think of this as one of a row of people, walking like Egyptians if you will,
and they are decoration from the surface of I would think a piece of large furniture – a
chest or maybe a shrine which would contain images of some of the Egyptian gods.”
[Narrator]: Look at the amazing colors of glass – the aquamarine of his face, the
bright red of his clothing, and the deep blue of his skin.
[Kid 1]: Are the designs painted on his clothes?
[David]: “No, it’s actually a mosaic glass and the colors go all the way through the
thickness of the glass.”
[Kid 1]: Why does he have blue skin?
[Kid 2]: Maybe it was supposed to be nighttime.
[Narrator]: Many of these glass inlay figures decorated the wooden coffins of Egyptian royalty
in their pyramids.
[Kid 2]: Well it is pretty dark inside one of those tombs - maybe that’s why his skin
is blue.
[Kid 1]: Can I stop standing like this now?
[Narrator]: (laughing) Sure!
[Kid 1]: “Phew! That’s a relief!
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