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    The word "sekhet" in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, which is usually translated as "eunuch," but may have been a category of gender-variant people, who didn't fit into male or female categories. This image originally came from "inscribed pottery shards discovered near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), and dating from the Middle Kingdom (2000-1800 BCE), contain a listing of three genders of humanity: males, [sekhet], and females, in that order," as described in: Sethe, Kurt, "Die Aechtung feindlicher Fürsten, Völker und Dinge auf altägyptischen Tongefäßscherben des mittleren Reiches," in: Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 1926, p. 61; this image file itself came from the web-page "The Third Gender in Ancient Egypt" https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/egypt.htm

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    current02:32, 16 November 2019Thumbnail for version as of 02:32, 16 November 2019496 × 61 (10 KB)Imported>SekhetThe word "sekhet" in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, which is usually translated as "eunuch," but may have been a category of gender-variant people, who didn't fit into male or female categories. This image originally came from "inscribed pottery shards discovered near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), and dating from the Middle Kingdom (2000-1800 BCE), contain a listing of three genders of humanity: males, [sekhet], and females, in that order," as described in: Sethe, Kurt, "Die Aechtung fein...