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Red Granite sarcophagus lid of Rameses III (User-Maat-Re Mery-Amun, ruled 20th Dynasty 1184-1153 BC). Rameses is in the form of Osiris and is flanked by two cobras and Isis on the right and Nephthys on the left. This piece was donated by Belzoni in 1823 and it originated in the Valley of the Kings.

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