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Egyptian stela, Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt

Stela of Inwy, polychrome limestone, New Kingdom, with relief of the udjat-eye and winged sun-disk, the owner and his son making offering to Isis and Osiris, in the Alexandria National Museum, opened 2003, in the former US consulate, a palace built 1926 on Tariq Al-Horreya street, in Alexandria, Egypt. The museum houses collections from Alexandria and Egypt, from the Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Stela of Inwy, polychrome limestone, New Kingdom, with relief of the udjat-eye and winged sun-disk, the owner and his son making offering to Isis and Osiris, in the Alexandria National Museum, opened 2003, in the former US consulate, a palace built 1926 on Tariq Al-Horreya street, in Alexandria, Egypt. The museum houses collections from Alexandria and Egypt, from the Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods. Picture by Manuel Cohen