"This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language."
Curator Diana Craig Patch on the statuette "Cult Image of the God Ptah."
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This tiny Egyptian statue was created to house the spirit of a god
"This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language."
Diana Craig Patch
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Diana Craig Patch
Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, Department of Egyptian Art
Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, Department of Egyptian Art
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ca. 945–600 BCE