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Related content for the article "Ancient Egypt: The Ptolemaic Period"

Related articles

  • Manetho, Egyptian historian (about 305-285 BC)
  • Egyptian mummy portraits

Related highlight objects

  • A 'Queen's Vase'
  • Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre
  • Gold octadrachm of Ptolemy II
  • Faience head of Arsinoe II
  • Marble portrait of Alexander the Great
  • Sandstone stela showing Ptolemy II offering to the Buchis bull
  • Painted wooden figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
  • Outer coffin of the priest Hornedjitef
  • Stela fragment of Horiraa
  • Bronze relic-box for a mummified eel
  • Bronze relic-box for a mummified falcon
  • Mummy of a falcon with a bronze mask
  • Wooden coffin of a child
  • Papyrus of protection and destruction
  • Hypocephalus of the temple musician Neshorpakhered
  • Painted mummy case of an unnamed man
  • Demotic papyrus
  • Papyrus with the will of Neskhonsu
  • Granite head of a bald man
  • Granite naos of Ptolemy VIII
  • Stela of Taimhotep
  • Giant sculpture of a scarab beetle
  • Stela of Neswy
  • Mummy of Hornedjitef
  • Limestone stela with three figures of Bes
  • Papyrus from the Instruction of Ankhsheshonqy
  • The Rosetta Stone
  • Mummy mask of Hornedjitef
  • Bronze figure of the cat-headed goddess Bastet
  • Fragment of a basalt water clock
  • Papyrus marriage contract between the priest Pagosh and Teteimhotep
  • Textile with Erotes figures in a boat

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