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English: Group of Nubian bowmen miniatures from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian nomarch Mesehti. Painted wood from Asyut, around 2000 BCE, First intermediate period. Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 257 (JE 30969).

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Source Ludwig Borchardt (1863 – 1938): Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten im Museum von Kairo, Nr. 1-1294, in Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, 1911, available not-in-copyright here, pl. 55.

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