Statuette of a Female Priest

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 26 August 2019
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Bronze standing figure of a female priest, upper limbs missing, with figural engravings on her dress. Third Intermediate Period, 25th Dynasty (Nubian Dynasty), 746-655 BCE. From Egypt; precise provenance unknown. (The Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Amin, O. S. M. (2019, August 26). Statuette of a Female Priest. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11090/statuette-of-a-female-priest/

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Statuette of a Female Priest." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified August 26, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11090/statuette-of-a-female-priest/.

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Statuette of a Female Priest." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 26 Aug 2019. Web. 21 Dec 2024.

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