Full Lips

Ishtar was Depicted with “Full lips”

Ishtar was Depicted with “Full lips”

Source: The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Volume 4 (Ginn) 1888 A.D. Note: Page 168 of the source. Note: Page 168 of the source. Note: Page 169 of the source. Note: Page 173 of the source. It is fair to say that "full lips" have often been equated to be "negroid" lips. This source could be used to confirm the black presence and influence amongst the ancient Hittites. This source's commentary is important because how peoples depicted their "gods" could be a reflection upon their own ethnic and social standards.
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A Getty Article on Investigating a 2nd Century Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portrait-The Individual Has ‘dark curly hair, thick eyebrows, and full lips’

A Getty Article on Investigating a 2nd Century Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portrait-The Individual Has ‘dark curly hair, thick eyebrows, and full lips’

Source: Scrutinizing “Sarapon”: Investigating a Mummy Portrait of a Young Man in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (Getty) 2021 A.D. From the source, "In 2004 the Carlos Museum of Emory University acquired a mummy portrait that depicts a young, beardless man wearing a white tunic (fig. 13.1). He has dark curly hair, thick eyebrows, and full lips. Within a red, tabula ansata–shaped label at the subject’s right, an inscription in Greek provides his name, patronymic, and age at death. He is identified as “Sarap[i]on,”1 son of Haresas, 25 (or 29) years.2 Little more than 3 percent of the approximately one thousand mummy…
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1910: Hebrews Referred To As Negroes and Linked To Jamaica | Elamites Describes As Having Negroid Features

1910: Hebrews Referred To As Negroes and Linked To Jamaica | Elamites Describes As Having Negroid Features

Source: The Negro In The New World (University of Toronto) 1910 - pg. 27 In his book, The Negro In The New World, Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston referred to Jews as "Asiatic Negroid" and also links Hebrews to Jamaica and Guiana. He goes onto point out that Arabia (The Middle East) was most likely originally populated by Negroes. Pay close attention to notes 1 and 2 at the bottom of the pic.
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