Reproduction patinated by hand on a black wooden base. Mold made from an imprint of the original work. Judging from the scenes depicted, she is a graceful little person, seated, carrying on her head an ostrich feather, the phonetic hieroglyphic sign of her name; she is also the right weight that will be used, in the scales of the judgment of the dead, to weigh the heart of the deceased and to recognise whether it is maâty, i.e. in conformity with Maât: The texts say that she is the daughter of Ra and it is her that the kings offer to the gods, carried in the palm of the hand like a small
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