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two beautiful artworks have approximately the same dimensions,
and complement each other perfectly (The dimensions and weight
in the table above refer to each piece). As a special offer,
we add another handpainted artwork - Anubis
- to your shipment for free, if you order Nefertiti and Tutankhamun
together. This offer will be available for a few weeks only,
as a celebration of the release of our new website.
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relief portrait carving to the left features Queen Nefertiti
presenting an offering of lotus flowers and an unguent jar
to the sun god Aton. Aton was the disc of the sun whose rays
terminated in human hands offering the beneficent symbol of
life and fertility (ankh) wherever the ray came closest to
the nose of the devotee. Although the complete image of Aton
is not present here, one of his rays offer the inverted ankh
as the breath of life. Read more about Nefertiti.
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the other relief sculpture, Tutankhamun wears the traditional
Nemes head cloth surmounted by a uraeus or cobra-an exclusive
protective adornment of kings, queens and gods. He also carries
the ceremonial flail. The actual flail he carried was found
in his tomb and made of gilded wood with solid gold cascades
of the bell like segments. The flail was based on a much earlier
version of a fly whisk which must have been a royal prerogative
at the dawn of Egyptian civilisation. Read more about Tutankhamun.
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