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“The Hand to the Mouth”. Suckling the Dead in Ancient Egypt.

by mrvaldesogo | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

The assiduousness of the icon in the icnongraphy of Ancient Eypt of the mother bringing closer her breast with the aid of her hand to her baby’s mouth seems to be plenty of sense in the ancient Egyptian belief related to the new life. For that reason it does not seem...

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