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This fragment is a part of a family group representing a husband and a wife or a son and a mother. The woman wears a dress (?) and a cloak thrown over the left shoulder; on her head there is a heavy wig characteristic of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The face is round and rather flat, the neck is long. The right arm was embracing the male figure. On the back of a seat the initial hieroglyphs of two vertical columns of inscriptions are preserved.

This fragment is a part of a family group representing a husband and a wife or a son and a mother. The woman wears a dress (?) and a cloak thrown over the left shoulder; on her head there is a heavy wig characteristic of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The face is round and rather flat, the neck is long. The right arm was embracing the male figure. On the back of a seat the initial hieroglyphs of two vertical columns of inscriptions are preserved.

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Hieroglyphs \|1-//-n:t-//-! \|2-h/-pr:n-Sw(t:f:nwt)-//-!
Transliteration (1) --- n.t --- (2) --- pr Sw tfnw.t ---
Translation (1) - - - of - - - (2) - - - temple of Shu (and) Tefnut - - - (1) - - - of - - - (2) - - - temple of Shu (and) Tefnut - - -

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From the collection of Turaev. The date, place and method of acquisition are unrecorded.

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Bibliography

Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.84-85, cat.no.79, tab.II,79.

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Preservation: 
Only the upper part of the female figure is preserved. The nose is damaged, the face is weathered.

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