The Celestial Cow Funerary Bed of Tutankhamun (Illustration)

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by wikipedia
published on 10 August 2019

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The Celestial Cow Funerary Bed of Tutankhamun — Image of the tomb of Tutankhamun (r. c. 1336-c. 1327 BCE) taken in 1922 CE or early 1923 CE. The funerary bed is fashioned in the shape of the Celestial Cow as depicted in The Book of the Heavenly Cow, a text which adorned Tutankhamun's tomb's walls.

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Original image by wikipedia. Uploaded by Joshua J. Mark, published on 10 August 2019 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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ANCIENT EGYPT : The Book of the Heavenly Cow

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wikipedia, . (2019, August 10). The Celestial Cow Funerary Bed of Tutankhamun. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/11049/

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wikipedia, . "The Celestial Cow Funerary Bed of Tutankhamun." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 10 Aug 2019. Web. 24 Nov 2020.

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