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Relief, National Museum of Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan, North-east Africa

In the entrance hall is a large relief taken from one of the chapels of pyramid 11 at Meroe. It depicts the immortalisation rites of Queen Shanakdakhete (2nd century BCE). She is seated on a lion-shaped throne and holds a palm leaf in her right hand and a rope tied to prisoners in her left hand.

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Uploaded on February 14, 2020
Taken on December 20, 2019