Edwards, Amelia B.: Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers (New York, NY, 1892)

THE BIRTHPLACE OF GREEK DECORATIVE ART. 1G1

could the Danai, who were originally but a small tribe settled
on the mainland in Argolis, be described as " those who dwell
in their islands." Danai, however, which is a transcription
from the Greek, did not supersede " Hanebu," which is pure
Egyptian. "We accordingly find " Hanebu " again employed
about two hundred years later in a colossal bas-relief group
of Pharaoh If oremheb and his prisoners of war, among whom
may be seen a gang of captive " Hanebu "—men and women
—with their race-name inscribed against them. The heads of
the men are defaced, but the profile of one woman is yet per-
fect; and that profile is
the earliest portrait of
a Greek in the world.
The eye is defaced;
but the delicate out-
line of the features is
yet uninjured. She
wears one long ring-
let (presumably one on
each side); and this
ringlet is a. character-
istic feature of female
heads in archaic Greek
art. It may therefore
be assumed that it was
a national fashion from
the earliest period. I
may as well add that
the word " Hanebu,"
as a generic term for
the Hellenes, whether
Asiatic or European,
survived till the time

of the Ptolemies, when the Greeks ruled in Egypt. Native
Egyptian scribes of that comparatively modern age used
it to denote the governing race, just as their remote fore-fa-
thers had used it to denote Greek barbarians taken in battle.
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HKA1> (IF BANKBO woman.

Bas-relief from the Pylon of Horembeb, at
Karnak. From a photograph by Mr. W. M.
Flinders Petrie.