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Work and Occupations - A Game |
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| This sculpture is called "Striding Man." It may have been placed in a tomb to provide a dwelling place for the deceased's spirit. It is inscribed with a prayer to Osiris, god of the underworld. |
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You are wrong, lowly sweeper of the temple! |
| This is the god Amen-Ra. He is one of the many forms that the sun god took in Egyptian mythology. Amen-Ra was king of the gods and protector of the pharaoh when he went on military campaigns. |
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Egypt, Third Intermediate - Ptolemaic Periods ca. 1070 - 30 B.C. "Statue of Amen-Ra" |
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