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GizatiStudio•

These were typically made for and sold to tourists in the mid-century.

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LowerQualityOP•

that was definitely one of the things we were considering, thank you.

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LowerQualityOP•

there are 2 of them, here are some more photos https://imgur.com/gallery/v72N9H5

trying to find more info on them. my mum said she got them back in the mid 1960s from a cousin who was from egypt.

i sadly have no way of getting anymore info from her but among her old stories she would also sometimes say that her cousin from egypt tried to court her (as in marraige) as well, so i dont know if these are some sort of gift related to that, or if they are cheap tourist things from back then or what.

the guy from egypt was supposedly one of the sons of a royal engineer to one of the kings in the 40s or 50s but i dont know if thats just mum's faulty memory or not.

they are not anything super high quality but they also dont look anything like the modern cheap stuff you can buy online at least.

if anyone has an idea of where to get more info about when they might have been made and what they mean it would be appreciated, the seem to be something related to death based on what i can decipher from some googling...but half of everything related to egyprtian stuff seems to be related to death so maybe im way off the mark.

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gorgossia•

On death, a person’s heart would be weighed by Anubis against the feather of truth. We’ve got a presumed dead person on the far left, Thoth to keep record, Anubis weighing the canopic heart jar against the feather, a poorly drawn Amit waiting to see if she gets to eat the dead guy, and who I assume is Osiris out of his fancy dress on the right (since attention seems to be aimed that that far-right figure). So it’s a pretty typical post-death scene of one’s journey into the afterlife.

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LowerQualityOP•

thank you very much. i looked into a lot of this but kinda felt like i was building my understanding of what was going on with very thin evidence via google.

cheers m8!

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