EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Details of the ceiling of the chapel (see opposite) Left: The damaged hieroglyphic title of ‘General of the Army in the Palace of the King’ Above: The brightly-coloured sacred barque with kneeling figures of Horimin below both the prow and stern of the ship Below left: Illustrations of Horimin’s possible Libyan origins Below right: Horimin with his title of ‘Scribe of the Army’ in the register below his figure. Above his head is part of a scribal title
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Evidence (above) for Horimin’s possible Libyan origins, showing the plume he wears on his head in one depiction, together with the remains of a beard. The feathered plume can be compared to those worn by soldiers depicted in the Gebel Silsila temple of Horemheb (left)
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