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onlyknownothing ([personal profile] onlyknownothing) wrote2024-10-28 09:05 am

Tagerem, the God's Wife

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art description on this piece:

The priestess Tagerem was God's Wife of the god Re in Sakhebu in the southwestern Delta, a temple functionary of special order, intimate of the god.

From the Ptolemaic Period, circa 300–250 BCE. More pieces are available as a part of the Met's Egyptian collection. This piece was found via No Brash Festivity on Tumblr, and is in the public domain as a part of the Met's Open Access program.


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