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Statuette of an ancestral king

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Wood formerly clad with lead sheet, Late Period–Early Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 30 or later
Rights: Public Domain
Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Anne and John V. Hansen Egyptian Purchase Fund and Magda Saleh and Jack Josephson Gift 2003
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Title: Statuette of an ancestral king
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Wood formerly clad with lead sheet, Late Period–Early Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 30 or later.

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