Head of Nakhtmin, royal scribe and army general under Tutankhamun and his successors, part of a fragmentary monolithic statue of husband and wife, 1336-27 BC, 18th dynasty, New Kingdom, limestone, in the Luxor Museum, inaugurated 1975, in Luxor, Egypt. There are remains of the ostrich-plume fan on the wig, symbol of his rank. He was supplanted by Horemheb, who may have had this statue destroyed. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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