“You start saying, ’Who were they, and what are their personalities?‘”
Curator Marsha Hill on an Egyptian statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon (ca. 1347–1330 BCE).
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Marsha Hill
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Marsha Hill
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art
Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.
Light-induced near infrared luminescence image captured by John K. Delaney, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Senior Imaging Scientist, and Paolo Ricciardi, Ph.D., Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Scientific Research Department, Conservation DCL, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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ca. 1347–1330 BCE
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