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Description: | Light green faience votive offering in form of hieroglyph ankh "life", constructed out of three joining ancient fragments with modren infill: (1) handle element inscribed on both sides of shaft with epithets and cartouches of Aspelta; (2) cross bar documented as from the 1911 excavation of Palace 294 at Meroe, cachette find 32; (3) loop top, perhaps part of find 35 from same cachette. Formerly in the Wellcome Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese antiquities. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Meroitic Period; start=-591; end=350 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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