Illustration
This is a model of a "soul house". The building has four arched doorways. Redware. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, 1985-1795 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance of excavation is unknown. (The British Museum, London).
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Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.
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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, March 22). Egyptian Model of a Soul House. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8368/egyptian-model-of-a-soul-house/
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