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					| Pharaoh |  
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					| Our socity had a good talk on 'celbrations & indulgence from the 3rd intermediate period.
For 200  years there were almost no private statues then in the 22nd dynasty there were loads ( this period is supposed tio be impoverished but how did they afford all the granite statues?)
 
 Apparently 'roaming the marshes ' has erotic connotations.
 
 My heart is a god, its shrine is the stomach
 it rejoices when the limbs are festive
 is a quote from a statue of the priest Nebnetjeru.
 
 
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