Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?) (Illustration)

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 20 January 2022

Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?) — 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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