fig 5 fix !publish!

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Alexandros Tsakos 1 year ago
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@ -144,16 +144,16 @@ that young boys\' graves were also accompanied by bows (Fig. 5).
The
four youngest individuals with a bow are less than 4 years old and the
one in Figure 5 has a bow that is too large for his age. This
observation and their age -- less than two years for two of them --
shows that these bows are not necessarily placed in tombs to express the
activity of the deceased, but also have a symbolic connotation related
to male status.
one in Figure 5 has a bow that is too large for his age.
![Intact grave of a 1.5-year-old child with a bow, a cushion made of vegetable matter, and a pot (Kerma ancien III, Sector 29). As is the rule in Kerma graves, the body was placed on a carefully cut piece of bovine pelt.](../static/images/honegger/Fig5.jpg "Intact grave of a 1.5-year-old child with a bow, a cushion made of vegetable matter, and a pot (Kerma ancien III, Sector 29). As is the rule in Kerma graves, the body was placed on a carefully cut piece of bovine pelt.")
**~~Figure 5. Intact grave of a 1.5-year-old child with a bow, a cushion made of vegetable matter, and a pot (Kerma ancien III, Sector 29). As is the rule in Kerma graves, the body was placed on a carefully cut piece of bovine pelt.~~**
The richest graves sometimes distinguish themselves in a
This
observation and their age -- less than two years for two of them --
shows that these bows are not necessarily placed in tombs to express the
activity of the deceased, but also have a symbolic connotation related
to male status. The richest graves sometimes distinguish themselves in a
more spectacular manner. One of them had 50 aligned bucrania to the
south and 38 decorated pots on the surface. It is at the beginning of
Middle Kerma (*Kerma moyen I*) that the first royal graves appeared,

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