Template:Did you know nominations/Ramesses III prisoner tiles
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:42, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
| DYK toolbox |
|---|
Ramesses III prisoner tiles
[edit]
"Prisoner tiles" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- ... that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903? Source: Daressy 1911, p. 51-52: "Ce sont ces représentations de prisonniers qui olfrent le plus grand intérêt au point de vue historique et ethnographique, en nous montrant les types des populations étrangères voisines de l'Egypte au xii^ sièle avant notre ère... Mais le déblaiement de l'intérieur du temple et de son extérieur immédiat étant terminé, les travaux directs du Service des Antiquités furent arrêtés en 1899, et on laissa aux cultivateurs des environs le soin de dégager, par l'enlèvement du sébakh sous la surveillance de nos gardiens, tout le reste de l'aire comprise dans le grand mur d'enceinte. C'est en 1903 que des fellahs mirent au jour dans la partie correspondant à l'édifice annexe, des restes de portes renversées, encore munies en partie de leur décoration primitive en plaques émaillées."
...also Hölscher 1941, p. 42: "Since 1903 sebakh-diggers have found great numbers of fayence tiles at Medinet Habu."
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Self-nominated at 22:39, 3 March 2019 (UTC).
All the usual criteria (length, date, hook, freedom from plagiarism) seem to be met, but the article text that supports the hook fact refers to "sebakh-diggers" without explaining that sebakh is fertilizer. The link to sebakh explains the term, but I think it's better to state what it means within the article, especially given that the hook is highlighting it to a lay audience. A. Parrot (talk) 03:21, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hi @A. Parrot: thank you for your review. I have made the amendment to the article as you proposed. Regards, Onceinawhile (talk) 06:44, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
