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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

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307 .-- Funerary bark of Queen Aahhotep.] [Illustration: Fig.

308 .-- Ring of Rameses II.] [Illustration: Fig.

309 .-- Bracelet of Prince Psar.] The figures and hieroglyphs are cut out in solid gold, delicately engraved with the burin, and stand in relief upon a ground-surface filled in with pieces of blue paste and lapis lazuli artistically cut.

A bracelet of more complicated workmanship, though of inferior execution, was found on the wrist of the queen (fig.

300).


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