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| Picture No | 10044220 |
| Date | Old Kingdom |
| Description | Rahotep and Nofret |
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Seated painted limestone statue of Rahotep with his wife Nofret(members of the royal family of the Fourth Dynasty) from their tomb in Meidum, Egypt. When the undisturbed mastaba tomb was discovered in 1871 by Albert Daninos, the Egyptian workmen opening up the tomb fled in terror, as in the torch light, they saw the statues' inlaid rock crystal eyes glinted at them in an eerily lifelife manner-a feature originally intented to to ward off grave-robbers.
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| Source | Unattributed reproduction of a photograph. |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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