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Wooden funerary stela of Deniuenkhonsu, Singer of Amun-Ra. 22nd Dynasty, about 800 BCE. Probably from Thebes, Egypt. The British Museum, (photo taken at The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia)
Deniuenkhonsu is wearing a semi-transparent dress and a wig. She is shown offering luxury foods and flowers to the god Ra-Horakhty-Atum.
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