Aquamarine/Nanna K's Day

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Temple relief carving

The art of the 18th dynasty was very high quality. This relief carving is from Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple - about mid 1400s BC. Hard to believe the paint is so old.
It's Thutmosis lll making an offering of wine (equally, in 2 hands, symbolizing the equality of upper and lower Egypt) to the falcon headed sun god Re. All the dipictions of the Queen have been effaced from the walls here as everywhere from the temple by her son Thutmosis lll who hated her.

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