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Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples

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New Kingdom, 19th–20th Dynasty (ca. 1295–1070 B.C.)
Unalloyed copper, solid cast, with separate right arm; auriferous-silver and copper-alloy inlays; partially clad with precious metal sheet; altered in antiquity by removal of ears and addition of ram horns and crown with lituus; feet with lower legs, right horn, and reattachment of right arm are 19th-century restorations
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen (AEIN 614)
Provenance: unknown, said to be from Memphis
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