Cattle Butchering Scene from Saqqara (Illustration)

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Illustration

by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 02 January 2015

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Cattle Butchering Scene from Saqqara — Limestone relief depicting men slaughtering cows. From the tomb of Nianchnesut, Saqqara (Sakkara), modern-day Egypt. Old Kingdom, 5th-6th Dynasties, circa 2300 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Uploaded by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, published on 02 January 2015 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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Amin, O. S. M. (2015, January 02). Cattle Butchering Scene from Saqqara. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/3479/

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Amin, Osama S. M. "Cattle Butchering Scene from Saqqara." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified January 02, 2015. https://www.ancient.eu/image/3479/.

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Amin, Osama S. M. "Cattle Butchering Scene from Saqqara." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 02 Jan 2015. Web. 29 Mar 2020.

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