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1/7 Here's a look at magnificent color preserved in Sety I's temple @ Abydos. Perhaps best example of color surviving in any Egyptian temple. Great place to visit
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Ancient Egyptian, Plaque Amulet with the Name of the God Ptah, -1070
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4/7 Statuettes of Sety I in his Abydos Temple. Minieral pigments for reds and yellows better preserved than blues and greens. black made from soot, rarely survives.
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Fragment with Botanical and Geometric Decoration, 8th century C.E.
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Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of dates for prebendaries, Ebabbar archive, ca. 608 B.C.
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8/9 Here a photo of a well-preserved painted wall scene in Ramesses II’s temple at Derr in Nubia showing Pharaoh under a sacred tree with three gods.
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A replica of an iron age house shown in Bovey Tracey's Art Centre, England.
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2/7 Detail of golden vases and cultic equipment in the chapel of Amun-Re in Sety I's Abydos temple.
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Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion, ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
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