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NUT
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Product Highlights

  • Artwork of NUT
  • Painted on 100% authentic yellow Egyptian papyrus
  • Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
  • Securely packaged to ensure safe worldwide delivery

Tale Behind The Artwork

The astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Ramses VI. with depictions of scenes from the Book of the Day. and the Book of the Night. The sky-goddess Nut, the incarnation of the heavenly firmament is shown curved into arch to emulate the celestial vault ,Nut is shown swallowing the sun in the evening and renewing it in the morning. this goddess; therefore acquired a life-giving and regenerative role in her capacity of " Lady of the heavens and of the stars " , but also  and primarily-through her role as the mother of the sun as the deceased  pharaoh was associated with the sun deity, he shared in the sunُs rebirth  through Nut, who also had another function, that  a protective goddess, warding off evil from the deceased.

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