Ceremonial Gold Dagger

Photographer:

Manfred Bietak

Title:

Ceremonial Gold Dagger

Description:

A ceremonial gold dagger was given by the early 18th Dynasty ruler Ahmose I to his mother Queen Ahhotep, and was included among the funerary equipment in her tomb at Thebes.

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