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English: Detail from the Greenfield Papyrus (the Book of the Dead of Nesitanebtashru). It depicts the air god Shu, assisted by the ram-headed Heh deities, supporting the sky goddess Nut as the earth god Geb reclines beneath.
Date Photograph published 1997; artwork created c. 950 BCE
Source What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile, edited by Denise Dersin
Author Photographed by the British Museum; original artist unknown

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current02:34, 15 February 2014Thumbnail for version as of 02:34, 15 February 20141,691 × 1,140 (1.06 MB)A. ParrotLooking at the book again, this red tinge is more accurate than my overcorrected version
23:53, 13 June 2010Thumbnail for version as of 23:53, 13 June 20101,691 × 1,140 (780 KB)A. ParrotLighter, less red (more like print version of photograph)
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