Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?)

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Kelly Macquire
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 20 January 2022
Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?) Download Full Size Image

This fragment depicting a royal woman undergoing a purification ritual probably represents Queen Kia from c. 1353–1336 BCE during the Amarna Period of Egypt. It is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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