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Yellow calcite funerary stela part in form of female head with flat back and top; lips carved in low relief; deep oval eye-sockets, originally inlaid; eyebrows lightly incised, also originally inlaid; tall neck; deliberately carved to leave poorer-quality orange veining at the back where it would not have been visible in antiquity; slightly chipped.
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