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Bas-relief portrait of a woman from the Tomb of Ramose, in the Ancient Egyptian Necropolis of the nobles at Thebes, near Luxor, Egypt Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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Liberated from the evil empire, but I couldn't find a great summary page including this exact piece. Frustrating!

Anybody have a good reference page for this one?

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Hey I saw this tomb ! Very impressive and complete different from the ones around. It was the tomb of someone serving under Akhenaten hence the style. The tomb is actually unfinished and unpainted as the owner reverted to the traditional gods after the death of Akhenaten and built another tomb elsewhere.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    the tomb of someone serving under Akhenaten

    Aha, the heretic one-god Pharaoh! I missed you saying that at first.

    I kind of admire his massive balls for trying to convert the kingdom to a different theism, but OTOH the 'one-god' thing has played out pretty disastrously in later times IMO, so... yeah.

    Ah, who the heck knows...?

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