thanks to some amazing work the previous is done. Right now, if you feel like helping out go to the bottom of this post where all the available statues (which you hopefully bring back to life) are posted. To all thinking of doing this, you will be bringing some people who actually existed back into the living. This will enhance future versions of EB exponentially, if you know that the people who are your family members actually existed.
What you see here are two Indogreeks. Especially the guy on the left. Now, what I want you to do, if you feel like it, is to colour them into resembling real live humans, and I guarantee you they will be included into EB2.
Why do this?
Well, a big effort has been done by the team to gather up most of the rescued Hellenistic statues that have survived to this day. They are 60+ (and possibly more, if you people have some more we have missed). One of the things we would like to do, if possible, is to have those marble statues repainted into the people they originally were modeled after and introduce them into EB2. I personally can't imagine something more REAL than having the heads which did play part into forming the history of that time, back into action so to speak, even if under a different name.
I hope you want to do this, if you have the skills. I guarantee you that if you transform this into something that looks like a human (and 3 more down the line), GREAT THINGS will happen, such as being eligible for a "MEMBER" signature such as my own.
I want to thank you for reading this, and more so for taking the time to re-create a real live person who lived in the past. It would increase the historicity we strive for 100 fold.
If you can't help, well, try to encourage those who can. EB has always been a volunteer effort, and none of us is making a cent out of it. What we thrive on? Paint this picture to look like a real live human (if you can) and find out...
--UPDATE--
The link you see in the first part of the page has been done. There are 7 more pics for you to choose from. I will try to organise them in nations/cultures...
Those that are being worked on would have this colour.
1. Romani.
I don't think this thread would be complete if there weren't two Romani around here.
I think the following ones are maybe two of the most influential of our period.
This guy went to Africa... Work has begun
This guy had a month named after him, Work has begun
First post will be updated with all of the pics for ease of use... ( and also to take back the Indogreeks in the first post. They are done, ready to go, so far as I am concerned.
2. Saka
this pointed hat Saka found in Dalverzine Tepe... what the Achaimenid Persians called Tigrakhauda Saka Work has begun on this one
(leather, with metal studs on it, and an internal hat of some kind probably worn to keep it standing)
and a kushana king (which would double up for a Saka easily) depicted by IndoGreeks in the hellenistic/realistic manner,
3. Greeks
So far as skin tones, variation is key. Your portraits are a great hallmark if you will of one end of the spectrum, Cmacq. Indeed southern greeks did look darker, but Northern ones were of lighter complexion. Baktrians and consequently IndoGreeks would include Thraikians and Illyrians so they would look more lighter than darker. So far as Thraikians are concerned in Ancient Greeks "Thraikian" was a synonym with "gingerhead". In Baktria proper, as well, Blonde and ginger colours weren't uncommon for the IndoIranians living there. I am not saying that they should all look like Nordic people, just that colour variation is key, I think.
Just to give you an example of how the people looked like, using the few scraps we have left...
Found in Fayum 2-4th cent. CE. Still, I am very confident that he is of Makedonian descent. In Fayum there was significant Makedonian/Hellene colonisation.
And the deffinite, Sampul tapestry, depicting a greek soldier found in present day Xinjiang, China, thought to be of Baktrian origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_tapestry
I must say that those guys above are the one end of the spectrum, with the more dark tanned pics of Cmacq being the other. Artists should feel free to wander between those two ends. I just posted them because Ancient greeks back then, whether they were Makedonian, Epeirotes, Athenians, Cretans or what have you, would incorporate many different characteristics, they weren't of one cut cloth, as it were.
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As I am waiting for more of those statue "revitalisations" I think that 3+1 more statues should be given out.
Parmeneides from Elea, Work has begun on this one
An unknown statue found in Delos,
Staying on in Gandhara and the IndoGreeks living there, here is another one, depicting either a God or some famous IG of the time, yet even if it was a depiction of a deity, it would have been modelled after a person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PoseidonGandhara.JPG
I think that after reconstructing the languages, music and weaponry, this is a valiant effort to figure out what those guys 2300 years ago actually looked like.
All you photoshoppers out there with a desire to help out EB...
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