First visit this season to Luxor Temple this morning. Had to re-visit my lovely Sefkhet-Abwy on the back of a seated colossal statue of Ramses II:
She wears the most beautiful leopard skin:
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It's hard to believe that I am in my twelfth season of living and working in Luxor for six months of the year. And in May of 2015 this blog turned eight! I can only hope that I will have the good fortune to return to Egypt for many years to come.
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- Marie
- Luxor, Egypt
- A native Californian (yes, they do exist!) who has landed a dream retirement job as Librarian for the library at Chicago House (The Epigraphic Survey of The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) in Luxor, Egypt...
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Beautiful! If I'm not mistaken, you have jewelry engraved with her headpiece symbol?
ReplyDeleteRight you are, Laurie! Sefkhet-Abwy is a later incarnation of the goddess Seshat.
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